This is my local Indian takeaway. First I've heard of it:
That's why there 10 "kurd Cutz" within 1/4 mile on one of my local streets. Each with about 6 "barbers" and 1 customer. They use them as fronts for drug money / illegal ciggs money laundering.This is what I think.
If everything is cash then they declare most of that cash including what comes from the drug deals then the Tax and VAT man sees that they are a legit cash only business thats avoiding card fees from banks thats declaring a good whack of cash. They make themselves look an honest tax paying meat eating business.

They deposit cash by walking into the bank.How do they do their banking?
Either an accountant themselves of a bookkeeperHow do they do their accounting?
Like they would any other business.How does the taxman view the difference between their outgoings (incl VAT) and their takings, including VAT.
Effectively they would be.Unless you claim they are paying VAT on their drug-deals?![]()
They just need to show proof of where this cash is coming from.You make it sound so easily,
They have every reason to be suspicious, and the business has the expectation to prove that everything is legit.but I know from personal experience banks etc are extremely suspicious about unusually large amounts of cashflows.
So they shouldThey're frequently suspending accounts until due investigation has taken place.
and so they shouldThey're getting paranoid about the services they offer to their customers,
And thats only rightto ensure they don't fall foul of government clampdowns,
And they dont want that.which would result in massive fines, bad publicity and ongoing investigations.

Our local Kurdish Barber is always empty. I had put this down to their poor English spelling.That's why there 10 "kurd Cutz" within 1/4 mile on one of my local streets. Each with about 6 "barbers" and 1 customer. They use them as fronts for drug money / illegal ciggs money laundering.

Your last sentence undoubtedly means the first sentence would be inaccurate.They deposit cash by walking into the bank.
And they dont want that.
declaring a good whack of cash.

Tell us what street, so we can confirm your claims are not just your imagination.Our local Kurdish Barber is always empty. I had put this down to their poor English spelling.
Yet still, Turds Cutz is open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Shut up doppy, thst was a joke.Tell us what street, so we can confirm your claims are not just your imagination.
We can easily check it out on google maps.
What 'supplies' would a barber need? Apart from some scissors, a comb and a set of clippers, they’d only need shampoo as a consumable which costs peanuts. Ditto car washes. Shampoo and wheel shine. Why do you think they choose these outlets to launder their cash? Just think how much car wash cash can be 'generated' with just a five quid gallon of car shampoo…..The payment of VAT on supplies would need a paper trail, so the declaration of takings would be a massive difference to the VAT paid on supplies.


As usual, when called/caught out, it was only a joke.Shut up doppy, thst was a joke.
"A Kurdish barbers called Turds Cutz!"
That's why there 10 "kurd Cutz" within 1/4 mile on one of my local streets. Each with about 6 "barbers" and 1 customer. They use them as fronts for drug money / illegal ciggs money laundering.
As I said a figment of your imagination.Our local Kurdish Barber is always empty. I had put this down to their poor English spelling.
Yet still, Turds Cutz is open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Try to keep up with the discussion:What 'supplies' would a barber need? Apart from some scissors, a comb and a set of clippers, they’d only need shampoo as a consumable which costs peanuts. Ditto car washes. Shampoo and wheel shine. Why do you think they choose these outlets to launder their cash? Just think how much car wash cash can be 'generated' with just a five quid gallon of car shampoo…..
We have a Chinese that only takes cash. I wont use it. A kebab shop only does cash.
And an English run butcher only does cash.
This one to me seems a bit suspicious.
One fella who worked there got put away with his son for chopping his mate up. Drugs where involved.
I see a nice steak at this butchers I spoke of. He cut it and bagged for the 4 of us before telling me cash only.
"I only have a card!"
He pointed to the post office 4 doors away. I did walk past the post office with on the way back to the car less steak in hand.
This is what I think.
If everything is cash then they declare most of that cash including what comes from the drug deals then the Tax and VAT man sees that they are a legit cash only business thats avoiding card fees from banks thats declaring a good whack of cash. They make themselves look an honest tax paying meat eating business.

Sounds like they're sending civilians, under protected, under resourced and under trained, to do a legal enforcing role dealing with criminal gangs.When the government sends Trading Standards to investigate high street businesses run by criminals brought here by the government, this is what happens...
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'We will kill you and burn your house': Council staff under attack from High Street gangs
Dozens of Trading Standards officers describe intimidation from criminals running mini-marts and vape shops.www.bbc.co.uk

Relating back to the much mentioned idea of multiculturalism isn't working, as though it's some great experiment gone wrong, it reminded me of Nesrine Malik's comments in her introduction to her book "We Need New Stories"You make a nonsense post about the great social experiment that's failed. But when I explore your ideology, to understand how you arrived at your conclusion, first of all, you waffle, then resort to ad hominem abuse.![]()
Malik, Nesrine. We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent (p. 8/9). Orion. Kindle Edition.Individually and collectively, we need stories. It is a universal impulse. We need some galvanising, sense-making framework, a narrative, in order to instil order and a sense of purpose to our lives. Some myths are not only useful, they are necessary. All political orders are based on useful fictions which have allowed groups of humans, from ancient Mesopotamia through to the Roman empire and modern capitalist societies, to cooperate in numbers far beyond the scope of any other species. Every social unit, from the family to the nation state, functions on the basis of mythology, stories that set them apart from others. Some myths are less useful than others, and some are dangerously regressive. In Britain, I began to see these tales being told on a cultural, not just individual, level, to justify the way things were and preserve the status quo. But they were not harmless self-comforting bedtime stories; they were toxic delusions that had a purpose, to stymie change.
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I started to write this book at a time of both political awakening and despair, when it was becoming clear that something was not working, where there was fear and distress but also a healthy impulse to resist and mobilise. But the effort is inchoate and still fixated on the idea of returning to a time before it all went wrong, rather than the recognition that things have been going wrong all along.