That is because the launderers are paying tax, whereas the side hustlers aren't. Making sure people follow the law is not as big a priority as collecting revenue.
They all know it and allow it. It’s hard not to state that they’re not the only one corrupted. The whole system is corrupted and the officials and they get away with it because someone gets cash from the authorities. It is that simple. How possibly we ordinary people can fight it?! They can regulate it with legislation and the same rules for everyone including surveillance they just do not want it as too many people got rich of it. Uncomfortable truth. So sad we think we live in the country of law and order.
They must be charging £40 per hair cut…. If the NCA were really smart, they could monitor ATM dispensing volumes in your town if so many people are pulling out cash for a hair cut…
The High Street would NOT be empty without these types of shops. Vacancy rates would quickly force rents to drop, allowing legitimate business back in at a price they can afford.
not that simple. if a landlord drops his price he reduces the value of the property. some would rather leave the property empty but at an artificially high value on his books than reduce the rent and reduce it's value.
As a previous shop owner, I would not contemplate opening another shop. You are better off setting up an online shop selling to the world rather than selling your item to a very small local set of people. You can either work from home or rent a building at a fraction of the cost of a highstreet shop. You work your own time and do not have to be there 9am till 5pm even on a day when no one is expected in due to snow etc. The high street as we know it is dead.
That's a silly post. Money laundering is in the interest of the authorities and is on a massive scale in the City of London. Billions and billions of pounds going into the UK's economy.
HMRC have a lot of smart people and information systems very capable of cracking down on this type of thing but they're not politically motivated for whatever reason.
They don’t care becuase these criminals still pay their rent and business taxes. Your average business owner can’t keep up with payments in this current economy. Thats why I suspect nothing is being done- in a strange and horrible way, this is probably keep our economy slightly afloat…
@@daydays12 Or maybe they have been investigated and found no evidence. Don't forget HMRC is responsible for collecting tax and chasing up tax dodgers nothing else. I suppose everyone opposed to these shops don't use ebay either then.
HM GOVERNMENT well aware of this criminal activity. Its openly encouraged. Local Council has the power to refuse traders licences. They're implicit i the fraud, for financial gain.
Remember this the councils are taking money from these places in rates and council tax and they are aware of what is going on, so in my opinion they are complicit in this scheme. Maybe the council should be investigated
I live in a tiny village. There has always been a barber, who has been here for 30 years. We also now have 2 Turkish barbers. Everyone still goes to the normal barber. There is no need for the others. I’ve always assumed it was drugs or money-laundering.
@ He’s been at it for over 30 years and always has a queue out the door. I never claimed HE was a saint, merely that the other barbers get no actual customers, and have yet managed to remain “in business” for several years now.
In this day and age - no-one is making that much money legitimately. I followed the rules all my life and it's a struggle to pay the bills. Yet I am seeing 20 year olds driving 40k cars? About 6 or 7 barbers on one stretch of road, vape shops galore, 3 hand car washing services - that's all the variety we have. It's obvious it's a selection of crimes such as drugs selling, prostitution, burglary, mobile phone snatching, people smuggling. You go up my local common ground and see non British people smoking and drinking and having camp/ bonfires. I mean, I live in a diverse area, but it's getting desperate. I wonder how these car washes keep running but I expect they are maintained by people paying off their debt for being smuggled in - then they are the ones drowning their sorrows when I walk my dog. You find discarded needles from heroin use, nobody takes their rubbish home with them. Every British person my age remember the TV messages of Keep Britain Tidy - take your rubbish home with you. Poorer areas like where I live are ghettos, where the downtrodden live amongst a few who seem to have wealth that escapes explanation. This is no way to run a country.
@@daydays12 A few points. I walk past people talking in many different languages. Many different skin colours including white (I'm not singling out any particular group of people). Nowadays you don't hear many people talking English in public. The culture I grew up with has changed. There's no two ways about it. I think we have a mix of 40 pc white British in our area - so statistically my ethnic group is in a minority. Being politically correct for the sake of it to deny what I see, hear and experience every day? I'm a liberal person. I've been on rallies in support of looking after genuine refugees and I am more than critical of our Governments for creating this mess. They don't create safe routes. They don't create enough housing for anyone and we live in a dog eat dog world. The point is there is a criminal element making money from people smuggling and some very desperate people working as slaves being brought in. They are having a rough time but the whole community feels the pressure.
I agree, car washes are another cash only business and easy to launder money. There are two in my town, one run by Albanians (not one non foreign worker) and another run by a local person employing local people. I never use the Albanian run business and I do get angry when I see they don't employ local people (probably because they would have to pay the minimum wage).
About candy shops: you've just made me realise why some shops I've been in recently, have no price tags! I think I will draw my own conclusions and avoid such shops in future!
As someone who has bought something from one of them, they're fake, disgusting, expensive and they get very funny when you film or take pictures inside them
I live near an affluent market town in the far north of England. There are five Turkish Barbers, three traditional barbers which have been there for years, and one nail salon. Very few customers, most days there are none. Always BMW M4s and posh Mercs parked outside. A blind man on a galloping horse can see these are fronts for money laundering. The local paper's headline a few months ago, 'the Town is thriving!'. It is, with middle eastern barber shops who have no customers.
I rent one of these shops out and they pay me nearly double the rent I would expect to receive from a legit operation. It’s paid in cash so I don’t pay tax on it either. I have recently bought two more for them in Doni & Rotherham. I love em ❤️❤️
I've always wondered how some shops manage to stay open with no customers and we have this phenomenon in Kenya as well. An expensive clothes shop in a super expensive mall with no customers a day. It's a reflection of an impoverished middle class that previously kept the high street alive. There's a structural problem.
Surviving on corruption is not the way forward ! Here in North Devon there has also been a rise in such barber shops in most all of our market towns; infact at least two Turkish barber shops in each high street seems to be the norm. And yes,nail bars too ! Our government's policies have both allowed this and I suspect even encourage it....Being how corrupt it has also become. This is more than a disgrace on our government's ministers, it is also criminal !!
Yes, any legit business would be cannibalising each other . That would be like having Aldi, Lidl & Asda all next to each other & expecting them to all make a profit !
Because the money enters the economy:- landlords get rent, local authorities and government get tax and legit businesses get customers. No one wants to stop it.
As a retailer, if these candy shops are not displaying prices and metric weight prices, they are breaking the law, end of. I have to display prices on everything I have for sale. It's not hard to prove, it just takes time and personnel, both of which HMRC, Trading Standards and the Police don't have. You are also wrong, these Turkish barbers do not use British banks, they use Turkish banks, the money is transferred abroad, if I try to pay cash into my bank I'm limited to a maximum of £1200 per rolling six months, I cannot pay more in, the system wont let me. However use a foreign bank in a major city, and you can pay in as much cash as you want.
Nope. We can blame online shopping legitimately. It’s an almost automatic response from so many people to say “Yes, but it’s cheaper online”. And of course it is - all they need is a website, some software and a warehouse and a few people to answer the phones. When anyone says to me that “It’s cheaper online”, my response is always the same, if all you want in your high street is barbers, nail salons, coffee shops and restaurants then yes, keep buying online because eventually everything else that can be delivered by van to yourhome, will be. Grim indeed.
@@mariemccann5895 I don't mean side streets, I mean main roads. I don't live in a city but I can count at LEAST three for each 1 mile of main road I drive down. And there's always one of them sat outside on the steps smoking.
No it hasn't. There has been a long tradition of barbers in the UK from that part of the world. However now the number is so staggeringly large there is no way of knowing who is at it and who isn't.
In mi high street there are at least 8 barber shops. It is a very small high street in a small town. There is no way there are that many people needing haircuts in this town.
Most of the laundering is from the misery of others, so anyone using these shops without being 100% sure of their crimes should avoid them, unless they support the crimes. As a worst case, think of you women trafficked to the UK to work in the "entertainment industry" (YT polices some words) and you are essentially facilitating that market.
On opposing sides of a narrow alley sits my British hairdresser, and on the other side a (foreign owned) Vape shop. The large plate glass window allows us to see right into the vape shop ten feet away. There are never any customers there. The last time I needed a haircut I asked my hairdresser, "do you ever see any customers in that shop". She immediately said no, but there had been three occasions when Trading Standards had raided it and bagged-up large amounts of stock. Also, twice the police had come and taken people away - *in handcuffs.* But each time the shop just reopens again. I'm sorry, but I do not see any will to close *ANY* of these places down. Are the police and councils taking a cut? What other explanation could there be for their lack of action? A comprehensive investigation is needed in my opinion. Questions need to be asked in parliament. Without fail, all of these laundering shops are run by foreigners.
I live in a small seaside town and we have a number of these Barber Shops....how they stay open is beyond me because they're never busy....and given Business Rates, cost of electricity etc etc, I can't think how they make ends meet....yet the Authorities don't appear to be interested in these 'businesses'
Thank you Sir for the first man to notice these problems. I'm a South African man working in Ireland. From the moment I set foot in this country, I realised emediatly what dark and sinister
I think where I live there is more than 25 nail salons, at least 20 turkish type barbers, 2 American sweet shops very close together. Most of them seem to be empty nearly all the time day in day out. I have no idea what is going on there because these are not services I use. I think it's a chronic and rapid deterioration of the high street and not fair on genuine businesses and shoppers.
U don’t need to my man, I pay them £45 every 2 weeks. I bounce in, get a full love session & pay using my debit card !!! Walthamstow prestigious barbers. The card machine is always working
We had our favourite barber in our local suburb shopping centre. It was always busy but it literally closed overnight without warning and was replaced by a Turkish barber that is always empty. It is now one of six. All empty.
About 10 minutes from my home there's a foreign barbers shop that opened in October/November time last year. Over the road a foreign convenience store appeared from nowhere in 2020. A few months ago, a couple of doors down from the barbers, a foreign vape store opened too. It looks like a trip down the mecca. None of these places are even busy. It's so obvious that they are up to no good.
Takeaways used to be in the same boat, but now nobody takes them serious if they don't do online orders/deliveries, which is of course all traceable, so they can't use the "cash only" excuse.
Many candy shops are also suspected of avoiding paying relevant taxes (E.g. Business rates). The owners will just shut down the company and start a new company.
Not so long ago all Tax offices had Revenue Officers who would go “ out and about” looking at where tax payers lived, what cars were on the drive, visiting restaurants, spending time looking at businesses to see the footfall etc. etc. It’s nit rocket science and it’s not difficult to assess the turnover of a barbershop.
Just for one of my businesses it would cost me about 10k per year to have electronic payment, thats fees and rent of the card reader. So I do understand when some places say cash only. Some people have no idea where we are heading if we go to a cashless society. Its frightening 😧
Wjat are you on about? Even the market stall traders all have those white LCD card payment machines which are linked in via bluetooth to thier mobile phone!
What are you on about 😅 Those white card payment machines can be a cheaper deal but limited to a few transactions per day, there is still a commission fee to pay. Have a guess who is making the commission. The whole thing is being set up to make money from everything that we spend with day to day living. Making money from mortgages and loans wasn't enough, we want everything. Some people see it, some don't.
You'll often see barber shops / nail bars in very close proximety to "independent" take away restaurants. The take away restaurants are fronts for drug dealers ("hello, yes, I'd like to order the burger of the day meal, can you deliver?"), the drugs are delivered (along with the food, needs to look authentic after all) and the delivery driver is paid in cash. That cash is then laundered through the barber shop / nail bar. It's what the government mean when they say "Britain is open for business".
It is very clear that these business is doing undercover business. I ever warned men around here to not support them, I'm just frowned upon. You hit the nail on the head
Smallish corner shops, so many now that never have anyone in them. Same with those American sweet shops, vapes, take aways. The barber shops near me do actually have customers and the nail bars too, just not that much to account for the cash flow. HMRC are just a bunch of WFH muppets.
My Chartered Accountancy professional exam back in 1990 contained the following very surprising question: "Estimate how many barbers shops there are in London. Show your workings". Nobody expected a question like that, it was a real test of common sense. How I tackled it was to estimate the population of London, knowing only the population of the UK to be about 55 million. Then to halve that number to knock out females, then knock out a further 20% representing male infants. Then work out the average frequency of a haircut for the average man. Then work out how many minutes a haircut takes, and work out how many customers one barber can do in one 8 hour day, etc, etc. This is exactly what HMRC and the police should be doing to determine whether a high street full of barbers shops is really needed for a town with a population of just 5,000. I doubt that HMRC cares much, they are receiving tax on dirty money which they would otherwise not receive at all. Personally I think money-laundering should be disregarded, who cares where the money comes from? It helps our economy, for example Russian oligarchs. Better to crack down on the crime that generates it, if committed in the UK. If committed abroad, it's none of our business, we should welcome the money without asking questions, as we used to do in past centuries. The current rules affect the innocent citizen who now cannot deposit £200 in cash to his own bank, without being treated like a criminal.
Problem is, if money laundering is ignored it means that life stays tough for vast majority of people in UK; or tougher than it needs to be. Life is often tough disregarding money issues - financial woes just add to the hardship. By ignoring money laundering, councils can get away with charging higher rents than the law-abiding marketplace can bear, meaning genuine self-employed traders are priced out. Whilst it leads to nothing on the high-street being worthwhile to buy, meaning it hardly encourages people to start shopping more there. Downward spiral. Councils don't help by draconian anti-car policies, in the name of "environmentalism". That's another sham modern-day industry
@@mattylamb9194 Money-laundering has only become an obsession with Western governments recently. Througout the height of the British Empire and during the boom years of the 1980s to 2008 our economy did fine with laundered money sloshing about. It's the job of HMRC and the police to investigate and prosecute tax evasion. Now they have appointed banks as their agents, to snoop into their customers' affairs and investigate on their behalves. If they fail to investigate sufficiently they get slapped with huge fines. If you think a lesser tax revenue for the government damages poor people on welfare, wouldn't it be better firstly to control wasteful spending by government of the tax revenue it does obtain? For example stop the foreign donations to India and China as so-called "developing nations", the financing of useless foreign wars, hotels for illegal immigrants, and a host of domestic projects which are non-essential.
They ask for cash because there are commission to pay to use cards, and the workers get paid in cash which the government still allows that goes back from the 50s 60s 70s 90s 2000s 10s and 20s
Near where I grew up there's now 10 vape shops where only 1 actually has customers, a lot of nail salons are opening all within close vicinity of each other, this is a small market town and now with barbers on the rise Where i live now ive seen takeaways constantly with no customers that somehow still stay open with also a drove of barbershops, phone repair shops and nail salons opening On Edgware road which is less than a mile from oxford st, theres like 10 currency exchange shops that are cash only too, it used to serve as a non stop bustling middle eastern eatery and shisha street and now its just a lot of questionable shops The councils need to do something about it
@exelmans8855 if they don't know, why has it got to the point it is now? I read an article about Coventry's council decling permits for a fast food outlet (surprisingly it was a legitimate one as it was a chain popular mostly in London) they declined plans based on there being too many takeaways per sq mile. It gets to 6 barbershops or vape shops in some towns and councils say "nah keep them coming", I thought when it got to 5 I thought it would be the limit and then 5 new ones opened after Also the city of Westminster have cracked down on the candy stores on Oxford st and there are significantly less compared to just after COVID restrictions loosened
@@AA-dy3qw - turning down legitimate businesses such as this fast food outlet means Coventry City Council can instead install dodgy traders into the stores. They won't have any problems in paying due to their criminal activities. Judging by watching many people where I work, (within property), they spend half their day looking at their mobile phone instead of working. That includes managers. And that's when they're not working from home. Why would councils be any different? - indeed, they are probably worse. Just not interested/in on the dodgy money
"Without these shops, the high streets would be more or less empty." It could happen in short term, but it would not in long term. Rent prices will eventually decrease, and other businesses would seize the opportunity - supply and demand.
I would have zero idea of the level extortion (protection racket) that your average high-street shop or restaurant has to suffer these days, but I would imagine that these barber shops and the like would be juicy targets. And then said extortion proceeds can be laundered through other "shops". Mindboggling!
Theres loads of "Turkish" barbers in every town They are in fact Albanian If theres so many "Turkish" barbers in the UK , WHO is cutting the hair in TURKEY ?????
Well the cost to tape a banana to a wall is about £1. You then buy it yourself with the million in cash, under someone else's name. And hey presto, you're a successful artist!
..even back in the sixties and seventies (and beyond,) men were having their hair styling done by females at unisex salons. i'm amazed that so many all male 'barber shops' are still around!
Barbers shops nail salons, take aways, vape shops im a thick northerner who knows that's how they clean there drug money they never get investigated or get a visit from the taxman this country and Christianity have gone r i p englandstan
How is the ordinary hard working straight edges person supposed to get on in this country anymore when criminality so brazenly takes over and outcompetes
So . . . can anyone explain why nothing is being done to investigate these businesses and prosecute the criminals ? If it is all so obvious, how can they get away with it ? Can anyone get the papers or BBC to investigate and report on it ?
A few weeks back a small vape and candy shop opened in the middle of basically nowhere here in Hanwell London. It’s so obviously money laundering it’s laughable. I have not seen a single customer ever, it’s so tiny I don’t think a customer would even fit into it.
No CCTV on any of these shops either…..zero security as not required as all £ is taken at end of day, so no evidence at all…and none of UK Police/HMRC/Council is interested😂
Please don't blame cash for these problems. You'll miss it when it's gone and these issues are being allowed to escalate specifically to justify the end of cash and the ushering in of the new world order central banking system - and you will be truly shafted when this occurs.
The question is who is letting the smuggling and drugs get in the country? Who is consuming the services and goods they offer? The vape shops, nail salons, barber shops and car washes etc
It is not necessary for the smuggling to get into the country! Only the money has to get into it! The drug dealing and so on where the dirty money is generated can happen everywhere. The facade of these nearly legal businesses is just to pretend that the money has some honorable background.
HMRC could easily fix this loophole if they wanted to by insisting on a auditable receipt on every transaction, whether it be for a product or service, whether cash or not. Then audit the suspicious businesses. Other countries do this, why not here? It’s ridiculous that a blind eye is turned to this criminal activity, which is financing major problems in the world.
The kebab shop near me took card . Then the next week the big owner boss was gone , replaced by someone completely new. The new guy refused to accept card. Even though the same working card machine as before was right there in front of us. The inconvenience made him lose my custom. But i guess he doesn't care if he even has no customers, probably.
This has been going on way longer than 2004 the UK heroin trade grew from the streets of NE London in the late 70's. Put the problem of addiction back in the hands of doctors then the money goes away. As for the decline of the high street, Bezos is most likely to take the blame but dont forget the greed of Phillip Greene and his ilk raiding pension funds and asset stripping many of our favourite high street brands then leaving them to rot. Not been to Oxford st in a while but there was a sharp decline in sweet shops with local councils telling billionaire commercial properly owners that they can no longer duck paying business taxes by having their space occupied by blatant money laundering opperations.
The only bit that is not good is where the money comes from. If we can just ignore that for a moment, then every one should be fine with this as every one is getting their fair share of the proceeds. So, back to where it comes from. We just have to stop the source of the illegitimate income, then most of this other stuff as a result of it will also go away. Easier said than done as they say...
If normal shops oppened later then it would be so much better, right now so many shops close at 5 or even 4:30 on weekdays. How are people supposed to go shopping after their 9-5
Shopping where and for what? Brick & mortar has been dead for 15 years, there's nothing to shop at. Also nobody wants to work a shitty retail job past the evening for minimum wage. The only retail stores that aren't hellholes to work at are charity shops. There's a reason staff turnover for these kinds of places is insane.
@@Splozy charity shops, shops like cex or head shops all close at 5:30-6 and are all shops i have gone to amazon instead of because i would get stuff faster
Youd have to get the pricelist & then have surveillance on the barbershop 24/7 & then check which style they'd had. Compare the surveillance vs the accounts submitted. No Police force can afford this
I wondered into an American Candy sweet shop in Santa Monica last week and the candies are all the same price $17.99/ib . No full time staff and a massive $12000.00 monthly rent.
Small fast food joints were the traditional money laundering machines. But you have to register input goods and packaging.... Tyre retailers similarly.... The local authorities are in on the act too. If the highstreets are empty it cuts their income from business rates. So they ensure these businesses are not investigated. It would be reasonably easy to check the veracity of tax returns. Just place an undercover IR officer on the highstreet and count the number of clients entering a shop. Compare the reciepts against the foot traffic actually crossing the threshold. If the average "alledged spend" is close to half a week's wages in the local area, shut the business and confiscate all of the assets... [people got to eat any pay rent].
Years ago, there were rules of how many of the same type of shops would be allowed in a parade or high street. When this changed, I dont know but it definitively helped with the demise of the high street.
Money laundering on an industrial basis, but the inland revenue/DWP will come harassing any UK citizen selling on ebay as a side hustle.
Well said and still this farce carrys on today and unfortunately will carry on for a very long time.
Such an insult to everyone living in the UK.
Indeed.
I blame the local governments for this.
I blame us for this, we have let our Government get away with the rape and pillage of our lives and that of our children!
That is because the launderers are paying tax, whereas the side hustlers aren't. Making sure people follow the law is not as big a priority as collecting revenue.
Landlord gets their rent, council gets their business rates, HMRC get corporation tax from the laundered money. Why would they stop it?
totally correct. no one who should care about money laundering actually does. they are all making money out of it.
💯 % absolutely billions of various currency being used ... and more illegal aliens 👽 shopkeepers arrive on purpose
They all know it and allow it. It’s hard not to state that they’re not the only one corrupted. The whole system is corrupted and the officials and they get away with it because someone gets cash from the authorities. It is that simple. How possibly we ordinary people can fight it?! They can regulate it with legislation and the same rules for everyone including surveillance they just do not want it as too many people got rich of it. Uncomfortable truth. So sad we think we live in the country of law and order.
Maybe because they also fund that crackhead down your street?!
Indeed. Till crime goes through the roof.
There are SEVEN barbers in my town with less than 2000 people. The owners drive 100k plus cars. It’s all so obvious 😂
They must be charging £40 per hair cut…. If the NCA were really smart, they could monitor ATM dispensing volumes in your town if so many people are pulling out cash for a hair cut…
Deliberately being allowed = £££££ corruption everywhere
How many new weed grow houses?
What cars are they driving?
@@paulsz6194 Or they could be charging it on plastic. Monitoring ATM dispensing doesn't actually prove anything.
The High Street would NOT be empty without these types of shops.
Vacancy rates would quickly force rents to drop, allowing legitimate business back in at a price they can afford.
Fair, thanks for pointing out
not that simple. if a landlord drops his price he reduces the value of the property. some would rather leave the property empty but at an artificially high value on his books than reduce the rent and reduce it's value.
@JoshuaPerryParker cash is cash dnt care where it comes from anymre
@@TalesFromTheBlahSide. Standard is to give a free rent period. Then the rent is not reduced. That way the rentable value does not drop
As a previous shop owner, I would not contemplate opening another shop. You are better off setting up an online shop selling to the world rather than selling your item to a very small local set of people. You can either work from home or rent a building at a fraction of the cost of a highstreet shop. You work your own time and do not have to be there 9am till 5pm even on a day when no one is expected in due to snow etc. The high street as we know it is dead.
There are over ten Turkish barber shops in my town and they're almost always empty.
Or maybe everyone hides when they see you
Same in mine as well as an influx of vape shops
Same in Derby...no ome even likes them!!
Someone in Birmingham used wallpaper paste to stick big signs on Turkish barbers shops with MONEY LAUNDERING HERE outside one night 😂😂
😆😆🤣🤣
Four Turkish barbers in my town, their catchphrase is ‘card machine broken’ 😂
No appointments, walk ins only and cash only. A bit silly because none of them have any customers but are booking takings of £4k a week.
yeh "min charge three pound"
"because we lose money"
bullshit
@@arcadealchemist That is true though.
@@arcadealchemistthe minimum charge thing isn't bullshit they acc get charged for petty amounts of change on a card
Give them all card machines for free and do not allow cash. Of not, would be easy with AI and a £20 camera.
Add mobile phone repair shops to this
Had one tell me he only deals in cash as his supplier only deals cash, knew this was BS
Car washes as well
And cafes and kebab shops the list goes on.
Car washes too.
Vape shops?
You’ve forgotten all these vape shops that have opened and openly selling vapes to children.
Good point
And
OH NO, the Horror, the Horror.
Every drug dealer in south east London has your vape shop to wash their money, but the council and the police have a blind eye for it.
Why would the police go after money launderers when they could be arresting those airing offensive opinions instead?
Indeed or arresting journalists for suggesting that the Palestinians are being genocided
Honesty is being phased out of reality
They’ll just put in their own people and or pay people to populate the premises. Easy.
That's a silly post.
Money laundering is in the interest of the authorities and is on a massive scale in the City of London.
Billions and billions of pounds going into the UK's economy.
The later does not require investigation and is easy pickings for them.
HMRC have a lot of smart people and information systems very capable of cracking down on this type of thing but they're not politically motivated for whatever reason.
They are not as smart as they think they are 😉
They don’t care becuase these criminals still pay their rent and business taxes. Your average business owner can’t keep up with payments in this current economy. Thats why I suspect nothing is being done- in a strange and horrible way, this is probably keep our economy slightly afloat…
Indeed. The laundered money boosts the economy
@@mariemccann5895Oh they are, don’t kid yourself.
@@daydays12 Or maybe they have been investigated and found no evidence. Don't forget HMRC is responsible for collecting tax and chasing up tax dodgers nothing else. I suppose everyone opposed to these shops don't use ebay either then.
HM GOVERNMENT well aware of this criminal activity. Its openly encouraged. Local Council has the power to refuse traders licences. They're implicit i the fraud, for financial gain.
Exactly. It helps the economy
Councils are as crooked as hell - the procurement department is a hot bed of over inflated contracts handed out to their mates.
Remember this the councils are taking money from these places in rates and council tax and they are aware of what is going on, so in my opinion they are complicit in this scheme. Maybe the council should be investigated
yup, they are complicit as they have reasonable knowledge that they are receiving funds from criminal enterprises
police are too busy monitoring tweets
Oh shut up
I live in a tiny village. There has always been a barber, who has been here for 30 years. We also now have 2 Turkish barbers. Everyone still goes to the normal barber. There is no need for the others.
I’ve always assumed it was drugs or money-laundering.
What makes you so sure the local guy ain't doing it though?. Local don't equate to saintly
@ He’s been at it for over 30 years and always has a queue out the door. I never claimed HE was a saint, merely that the other barbers get no actual customers, and have yet managed to remain “in business” for several years now.
In this day and age - no-one is making that much money legitimately. I followed the rules all my life and it's a struggle to pay the bills. Yet I am seeing 20 year olds driving 40k cars? About 6 or 7 barbers on one stretch of road, vape shops galore, 3 hand car washing services - that's all the variety we have. It's obvious it's a selection of crimes such as drugs selling, prostitution, burglary, mobile phone snatching, people smuggling. You go up my local common ground and see non British people smoking and drinking and having camp/ bonfires. I mean, I live in a diverse area, but it's getting desperate. I wonder how these car washes keep running but I expect they are maintained by people paying off their debt for being smuggled in - then they are the ones drowning their sorrows when I walk my dog. You find discarded needles from heroin use, nobody takes their rubbish home with them.
Every British person my age remember the TV messages of Keep Britain Tidy - take your rubbish home with you. Poorer areas like where I live are ghettos, where the downtrodden live amongst a few who seem to have wealth that escapes explanation. This is no way to run a country.
Such racism! Blame those who don't look like you for your problems! Yikes!
@@daydays12 A few points. I walk past people talking in many different languages. Many different skin colours including white (I'm not singling out any particular group of people). Nowadays you don't hear many people talking English in public. The culture I grew up with has changed. There's no two ways about it. I think we have a mix of 40 pc white British in our area - so statistically my ethnic group is in a minority. Being politically correct for the sake of it to deny what I see, hear and experience every day? I'm a liberal person. I've been on rallies in support of looking after genuine refugees and I am more than critical of our Governments for creating this mess. They don't create safe routes. They don't create enough housing for anyone and we live in a dog eat dog world.
The point is there is a criminal element making money from people smuggling and some very desperate people working as slaves being brought in. They are having a rough time but the whole community feels the pressure.
@@daydays12 Britain has been intentionally gutted by globalists since 1945.
Look at the people working at barbers and car wash, they are not English
@@daydays12is that all you can take from an accurate and well written post?
One solution is for all UK citizens to stop using them and support the independent local UK barbers
I agree, car washes are another cash only business and easy to launder money. There are two in my town, one run by Albanians (not one non foreign worker) and another run by a local person employing local people. I never use the Albanian run business and I do get angry when I see they don't employ local people (probably because they would have to pay the minimum wage).
Assuming there is a local independent UK barber near one. Which as far as I know there isn't.
Were you not listening? Their income is from laundered money. It doesn't matter how many customers they get.
I've got a set of clippers.
Nobody is using their services. They’re a front for all of their illegal activities, they launder their dirty money from them!
Everyone involved is getting paid, including the Council. Everyone RELEVANT is happy. That's why.
About candy shops: you've just made me realise why some shops I've been in recently, have no price tags! I think I will draw my own conclusions and avoid such shops in future!
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it!
As someone who has bought something from one of them, they're fake, disgusting, expensive and they get very funny when you film or take pictures inside them
10 quid for a bag of out of date Dorritos in Carlisle. Prime location never seen anyone buy anything.
@@AA-dy3qw So they sell counterfeit / knock-off chocolate too?
you are one makes no difference.
Bought myself a set of clippers 25 years ago, not been anywhere near a barbers, (legitimate or otherwise), since.
That's the real problem pal, It's fine for people to be vain and lazy these days but they still have to blame someone else for it
I live near an affluent market town in the far north of England. There are five Turkish Barbers, three traditional barbers which have been there for years, and one nail salon. Very few customers, most days there are none. Always BMW M4s and posh Mercs parked outside. A blind man on a galloping horse can see these are fronts for money laundering. The local paper's headline a few months ago, 'the Town is thriving!'. It is, with middle eastern barber shops who have no customers.
“A blind man on a galloping horse”.
I’m adding that to my lexicon. Love from Devon.
Exactly; which is why they're not shut down. They mean rents to local landlords; tax to local and national government and money into legit business.
Mind your businesss.
I rent one of these shops out and they pay me nearly double the rent I would expect to receive from a legit operation. It’s paid in cash so I don’t pay tax on it either. I have recently bought two more for them in Doni & Rotherham. I love em ❤️❤️
@@newby944 ' legit operation' HAHAHAHAHA. This must be a wind up.
I've always wondered how some shops manage to stay open with no customers and we have this phenomenon in Kenya as well. An expensive clothes shop in a super expensive mall with no customers a day. It's a reflection of an impoverished middle class that previously kept the high street alive. There's a structural problem.
thats not a good example.
Surviving on corruption is not the way forward ! Here in North Devon there has also been a rise in such barber shops in most all of our market towns; infact at least two Turkish barber shops in each high street seems to be the norm. And yes,nail bars too ! Our government's policies have both allowed this and I suspect even encourage it....Being how corrupt it has also become. This is more than a disgrace on our government's ministers, it is also criminal !!
In London now you can get at least 5 or 6. Barbers shops on the high street it really is bizarre how they get away with this blatant crime.
Yes, any legit business would be cannibalising each other . That would be like having Aldi, Lidl & Asda all next to each other & expecting them to all make a profit !
Because the money enters the economy:- landlords get rent, local authorities and government get tax and legit businesses get customers. No one wants to stop it.
@@paulsz6194 Or like having two or three pubs on the same street?
As a retailer, if these candy shops are not displaying prices and metric weight prices, they are breaking the law, end of. I have to display prices on everything I have for sale. It's not hard to prove, it just takes time and personnel, both of which HMRC, Trading Standards and the Police don't have. You are also wrong, these Turkish barbers do not use British banks, they use Turkish banks, the money is transferred abroad, if I try to pay cash into my bank I'm limited to a maximum of £1200 per rolling six months, I cannot pay more in, the system wont let me. However use a foreign bank in a major city, and you can pay in as much cash as you want.
Don't blame online shopping for the dereliction of the high street. Blame Philip Green, he asset stripped those iconic companies for his own greed.
I like to shop obline myself.
Nope. We can blame online shopping legitimately. It’s an almost automatic response from so many people to say “Yes, but it’s cheaper online”. And of course it is - all they need is a website, some software and a warehouse and a few people to answer the phones.
When anyone says to me that “It’s cheaper online”, my response is always the same, if all you want in your high street is barbers, nail salons, coffee shops and restaurants then yes, keep buying online because eventually everything else that can be delivered by van to yourhome, will be. Grim indeed.
And Philip Green was a rapacious villain, but it takes more than him to decimate all of the UK’s high streets.
Government just lets them do it.
Complicit?
The government dont care otherwise they would be shut down.
Of course. It means rent and taxes and money going to legit businesses
THI$$$$!!
Apparently it’s too complicated to try to tax the rich.
Squeeze the PAYE instead. A lot simpler!
so thats why my window cleaner is driving a Lambo, lol
Does he have a golden squeegee as well ? 😂
@@paulsz6194 And a gold plated designer bucket in which to rinse his Gucci Chamois leather?
It’s always been obvious, Turkish/Albania barbers, seven in each town! Hiding in plain sight
Albanian 🇦🇱
In each town?
Don't you mean in each STREET?
@@ramalama9650 I don't think so, there are not that many of them, maybe more than seven though in a town.
@@mariemccann5895 I don't mean side streets, I mean main roads. I don't live in a city but I can count at LEAST three for each 1 mile of main road I drive down.
And there's always one of them sat outside on the steps smoking.
No it hasn't. There has been a long tradition of barbers in the UK from that part of the world. However now the number is so staggeringly large there is no way of knowing who is at it and who isn't.
In mi high street there are at least 8 barber shops. It is a very small high street in a small town. There is no way there are that many people needing haircuts in this town.
Same where I live in rural Wales and other surrounding small towns.
I live in a small town and there are about 30 pubs in town, there is no way that many people are constantly thirsty
@kindcitizen-oe5ck - I bet there aren't 30 pubs in a small town. Many pubs across the UK are on their knees
Most of the laundering is from the misery of others, so anyone using these shops without being 100% sure of their crimes should avoid them, unless they support the crimes. As a worst case, think of you women trafficked to the UK to work in the "entertainment industry" (YT polices some words) and you are essentially facilitating that market.
I don't think these entities have a monopoly on misery.
On opposing sides of a narrow alley sits my British hairdresser, and on the other side a (foreign owned) Vape shop. The large plate glass window allows us to see right into the vape shop ten feet away. There are never any customers there. The last time I needed a haircut I asked my hairdresser, "do you ever see any customers in that shop". She immediately said no, but there had been three occasions when Trading Standards had raided it and bagged-up large amounts of stock. Also, twice the police had come and taken people away - *in handcuffs.* But each time the shop just reopens again.
I'm sorry, but I do not see any will to close *ANY* of these places down. Are the police and councils taking a cut? What other explanation could there be for their lack of action? A comprehensive investigation is needed in my opinion. Questions need to be asked in parliament. Without fail, all of these laundering shops are run by foreigners.
The councils get their rates or whatever it is they are called. As long as they get that they are happy.
We 're so broke we can't afford to turn down any money, dirty or clean
Great explanation. Never did truly understand money laundering. Cheers!
I live in a small seaside town and we have a number of these Barber Shops....how they stay open is beyond me because they're never busy....and given Business Rates, cost of electricity etc etc, I can't think how they make ends meet....yet the Authorities don't appear to be interested in these 'businesses'
Thank you Sir for the first man to notice these problems. I'm a South African man working in Ireland. From the moment I set foot in this country, I realised emediatly what dark and sinister
I think where I live there is more than 25 nail salons, at least 20 turkish type barbers, 2 American sweet shops very close together. Most of them seem to be empty nearly all the time day in day out. I have no idea what is going on there because these are not services I use. I think it's a chronic and rapid deterioration of the high street and not fair on genuine businesses and shoppers.
Plus mobile phone places.
No one is forced to buy American sweets.
@@Andygb78 And indeed they arent buying them.
I refuse to give any of their establishments my hard earned cash
💯 % Boycott
They don't care.
They make money by money laundering which is in the interest of the landlords and local authorities and the government ( tax)
U don’t need to my man, I pay them £45 every 2 weeks. I bounce in, get a full love session & pay using my debit card !!! Walthamstow prestigious barbers. The card machine is always working
They don't care because it's not really a business relying on your trade
Tell me you haven’t watched the video without telling me you haven’t watched the video 😂
Really well explained video this, thank you. Maybe we should all start asking for receipts?! lol
Thank you - appreciate the kind comment 🙏🏼
We had our favourite barber in our local suburb shopping centre. It was always busy but it literally closed overnight without warning and was replaced by a Turkish barber that is always empty. It is now one of six. All empty.
Shops with very little stock on the shelves selling under counter cigarettes, they get closed down, then open up further down the road
😊The "Authorities " are complicit in this
Its a thing in Ireland too, Vape and phone shops, and ''cash" only hairdressers and clothes shops with no customers and yet no open appointments.
About 10 minutes from my home there's a foreign barbers shop that opened in October/November time last year. Over the road a foreign convenience store appeared from nowhere in 2020. A few months ago, a couple of doors down from the barbers, a foreign vape store opened too. It looks like a trip down the mecca. None of these places are even busy. It's so obvious that they are up to no good.
Well said Vanessa you beautiful intelligent lady! 😉 x
how are they foreign if they're 10 mins from your home? live close to a border?
Takeaways used to be in the same boat, but now nobody takes them serious if they don't do online orders/deliveries, which is of course all traceable, so they can't use the "cash only" excuse.
Many candy shops are also suspected of avoiding paying relevant taxes (E.g. Business rates). The owners will just shut down the company and start a new company.
But the current law allows them to do that. Don't hate the player hate the game.
Not so long ago all Tax offices had Revenue Officers who would go “ out and about” looking at where tax payers lived, what cars were on the drive, visiting restaurants, spending time looking at businesses to see the footfall etc. etc. It’s nit rocket science and it’s not difficult to assess the turnover of a barbershop.
Just for one of my businesses it would cost me about 10k per year to
have electronic payment, thats fees and rent of the card reader. So I do understand when
some places say cash only.
Some people have no idea where we are heading if we go to a cashless society.
Its frightening 😧
I read somewhere years ago that the black market was worth 5-10% GDP so prob won't happen.
Agreed, a cash only business is totally understandable
Wjat are you on about? Even the market stall traders all have those white LCD card payment machines which are linked in via bluetooth to thier mobile phone!
What are you on about 😅 Those white card payment machines can be a cheaper deal but limited to a few transactions per day, there is still a commission fee to pay.
Have a guess who is making the commission.
The whole thing is being set up to make money from everything that we spend with
day to day living. Making money from mortgages and loans wasn't enough, we want
everything.
Some people see it, some don't.
@@TRPGpilot presumably you are not self employed?
Same here in Australia. Chinese take- away, cash only. Asian grocery stores, cash only. And nail salons everywhere!..
You'll often see barber shops / nail bars in very close proximety to "independent" take away restaurants. The take away restaurants are fronts for drug dealers ("hello, yes, I'd like to order the burger of the day meal, can you deliver?"), the drugs are delivered (along with the food, needs to look authentic after all) and the delivery driver is paid in cash. That cash is then laundered through the barber shop / nail bar. It's what the government mean when they say "Britain is open for business".
It is very clear that these business is doing undercover business. I ever warned men around here to not support them, I'm just frowned upon. You hit the nail on the head
Why can't they just set up in the Square Mile/ City of London, where money has been laundered for centuries?
That’s for the big wigs not the garden variety…
Car washes - kebab shops - many more doing it on a huge scale
Oh yes, can't believe I forgot the to mention the dodgy car washes!
A lot of Chinese take aways too.
Smallish corner shops, so many now that never have anyone in them. Same with those American sweet shops, vapes, take aways. The barber shops near me do actually have customers and the nail bars too, just not that much to account for the cash flow. HMRC are just a bunch of WFH muppets.
My Chartered Accountancy professional exam back in 1990 contained the following very surprising question: "Estimate how many barbers shops there are in London. Show your workings". Nobody expected a question like that, it was a real test of common sense.
How I tackled it was to estimate the population of London, knowing only the population of the UK to be about 55 million. Then to halve that number to knock out females, then knock out a further 20% representing male infants. Then work out the average frequency of a haircut for the average man. Then work out how many minutes a haircut takes, and work out how many customers one barber can do in one 8 hour day, etc, etc.
This is exactly what HMRC and the police should be doing to determine whether a high street full of barbers shops is really needed for a town with a population of just 5,000. I doubt that HMRC cares much, they are receiving tax on dirty money which they would otherwise not receive at all.
Personally I think money-laundering should be disregarded, who cares where the money comes from? It helps our economy, for example Russian oligarchs. Better to crack down on the crime that generates it, if committed in the UK. If committed abroad, it's none of our business, we should welcome the money without asking questions, as we used to do in past centuries. The current rules affect the innocent citizen who now cannot deposit £200 in cash to his own bank, without being treated like a criminal.
Problem is, if money laundering is ignored it means that life stays tough for vast majority of people in UK; or tougher than it needs to be. Life is often tough disregarding money issues - financial woes just add to the hardship. By ignoring money laundering, councils can get away with charging higher rents than the law-abiding marketplace can bear, meaning genuine self-employed traders are priced out. Whilst it leads to nothing on the high-street being worthwhile to buy, meaning it hardly encourages people to start shopping more there. Downward spiral. Councils don't help by draconian anti-car policies, in the name of "environmentalism". That's another sham modern-day industry
@@mattylamb9194 Money-laundering has only become an obsession with Western governments recently. Througout the height of the British Empire and during the boom years of the 1980s to 2008 our economy did fine with laundered money sloshing about.
It's the job of HMRC and the police to investigate and prosecute tax evasion. Now they have appointed banks as their agents, to snoop into their customers' affairs and investigate on their behalves. If they fail to investigate sufficiently they get slapped with huge fines.
If you think a lesser tax revenue for the government damages poor people on welfare, wouldn't it be better firstly to control wasteful spending by government of the tax revenue it does obtain?
For example stop the foreign donations to India and China as so-called "developing nations", the financing of useless foreign wars, hotels for illegal immigrants, and a host of domestic projects which are non-essential.
@@mattylamb9194 MONEYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WONGA!!!
That explains why the Turkish Barber told me I needed to go to the local ATM to pay them. Even morning cafes I've come across operate like that.
Ah, you made the mistake of assuming the barber would take card payment, like almost all other shops do.
They ask for cash because there are commission to pay to use cards, and the workers get paid in cash which the government still allows that goes back from the 50s 60s 70s 90s 2000s 10s and 20s
Have never received a receipt for a haircut in 75 years.
whats weird is that Richard Cummins is 35.
How many times have you asked for a receipt , then?
@@paulsz6194 Quite so. A business has to supply a receipt if asked.
Near where I grew up there's now 10 vape shops where only 1 actually has customers, a lot of nail salons are opening all within close vicinity of each other, this is a small market town and now with barbers on the rise
Where i live now ive seen takeaways constantly with no customers that somehow still stay open with also a drove of barbershops, phone repair shops and nail salons opening
On Edgware road which is less than a mile from oxford st, theres like 10 currency exchange shops that are cash only too, it used to serve as a non stop bustling middle eastern eatery and shisha street and now its just a lot of questionable shops
The councils need to do something about it
“ The councils need to do something about it “. Really? You think they don’t know?
@exelmans8855 if they don't know, why has it got to the point it is now? I read an article about Coventry's council decling permits for a fast food outlet (surprisingly it was a legitimate one as it was a chain popular mostly in London) they declined plans based on there being too many takeaways per sq mile. It gets to 6 barbershops or vape shops in some towns and councils say "nah keep them coming", I thought when it got to 5 I thought it would be the limit and then 5 new ones opened after
Also the city of Westminster have cracked down on the candy stores on Oxford st and there are significantly less compared to just after COVID restrictions loosened
@@AA-dy3qw The takeaway limit is for public health reasons. That same factor cannot be applied to barbers or nail salons.
@@AA-dy3qw only because it was becoming too much.
@@AA-dy3qw - turning down legitimate businesses such as this fast food outlet means Coventry City Council can instead install dodgy traders into the stores. They won't have any problems in paying due to their criminal activities. Judging by watching many people where I work, (within property), they spend half their day looking at their mobile phone instead of working. That includes managers. And that's when they're not working from home. Why would councils be any different? - indeed, they are probably worse. Just not interested/in on the dodgy money
"Without these shops, the high streets would be more or less empty."
It could happen in short term, but it would not in long term. Rent prices will eventually decrease, and other businesses would seize the opportunity - supply and demand.
Fair point
I would have zero idea of the level extortion (protection racket) that your average high-street shop or restaurant has to suffer these days, but I would imagine that these barber shops and the like would be juicy targets. And then said extortion proceeds can be laundered through other "shops". Mindboggling!
Theres loads of "Turkish" barbers in every town
They are in fact Albanian
If theres so many "Turkish" barbers in the UK , WHO is cutting the hair in TURKEY ?????
Why you have a troll account
Wee Jimmy Crankie?
Don't forget cash only car washes
10 chairs per (Empty) shop, open at least 12 hours per day, a tenner cut clocked through for each chair every 20 minutes. Seven days a week.
Seven Turkish barbers in a town with 60,000 people and they’re always empty with fancy cars parked outside
All in your high street with Ferraris parked all day on those double-yellow lines?
Car wash,barbers,chip shops,nails,phone repairs ,kebab shops, the list keeps growing
wouldnt take much police surveillance to watch a barbers and how many customers in a week.
The police are probably in on the deal. That's the way it works.
That would mean making an effort to police 👮♀️
Wouldn't be police investigating..would be customs and excuse/Tax offices responsibility.
Easier for the police to sit back & turn a blind eye in return for their cut.
@YBALSTHYYYtheir haircut?? 😂
I’m convinced this is how the modern art market works but I don’t quite understand how 🤔
Well the cost to tape a banana to a wall is about £1. You then buy it yourself with the million in cash, under someone else's name. And hey presto, you're a successful artist!
Come to Aylesbury. There's at least 15+ different barbers here 😂😂
..even back in the sixties and seventies (and beyond,) men were having their hair styling done by females at unisex salons. i'm amazed that so many all male 'barber shops' are still around!
Barbers shops nail salons, take aways, vape shops im a thick northerner who knows that's how they clean there drug money they never get investigated or get a visit from the taxman this country and Christianity have gone r i p englandstan
Takeaways and vape shops have a product to buy so arent likely fo be money laundering.
Englandastan you mean
How is the ordinary hard working straight edges person supposed to get on in this country anymore when criminality so brazenly takes over and outcompetes
UK is a criminal enterprise.
Corner shops too. They're often replaced with pop and crisp shops,selling very little and often open for 18 + hours a day.
They have driven out decent barbers.
Successive governments have encouraged this.
I'm one of them.
So . . . can anyone explain why nothing is being done to investigate these businesses and prosecute the criminals ? If it is all so obvious, how can they get away with it ? Can anyone get the papers or BBC to investigate and report on it ?
The city of London finance district is one big legalised money laundering operation as well.
Exactly.
always has been :3
A few weeks back a small vape and candy shop opened in the middle of basically nowhere here in Hanwell London. It’s so obviously money laundering it’s laughable. I have not seen a single customer ever, it’s so tiny I don’t think a customer would even fit into it.
No CCTV on any of these shops either…..zero security as not required as all £ is taken at end of day, so no evidence at all…and none of UK Police/HMRC/Council is interested😂
Exactly; which is why they're not shut down. They mean rents to local landlords; tax to local and national government and money into legit business.
I always suspected underworld involvement in these Turkish barber shops! Like you say, there are often two or more on the same street?
This makes a lot of sense in my town where I live, tons of barbers about, and a lot of bald blokes 😳😳😉👍🏼
Please don't blame cash for these problems. You'll miss it when it's gone and these issues are being allowed to escalate specifically to justify the end of cash and the ushering in of the new world order central banking system - and you will be truly shafted when this occurs.
Exactly !
The question is who is letting the smuggling and drugs get in the country? Who is consuming the services and goods they offer? The vape shops, nail salons, barber shops and car washes etc
It is not necessary for the smuggling to get into the country! Only the money has to get into it! The drug dealing and so on where the dirty money is generated can happen everywhere.
The facade of these nearly legal businesses is just to pretend that the money has some honorable background.
The government grows and makes them, they also known to import them and exports them too
HMRC could easily fix this loophole if they wanted to by insisting on a auditable receipt on every transaction, whether it be for a product or service, whether cash or not. Then audit the suspicious businesses. Other countries do this, why not here? It’s ridiculous that a blind eye is turned to this criminal activity, which is financing major problems in the world.
The kebab shop near me took card . Then the next week the big owner boss was gone , replaced by someone completely new. The new guy refused to accept card. Even though the same working card machine as before was right there in front of us. The inconvenience made him lose my custom. But i guess he doesn't care if he even has no customers, probably.
After WW2 this was said of dry cleaners and laundrettes.
Finally found something Britain is good at! 👏🏻
Well London has been the money laundering capital of the world for quite a while..
These people aint British
Even multi million pound homes in London are bought by overseas "shell" companies. Seems like corruption has its rewards.
This has been going on way longer than 2004 the UK heroin trade grew from the streets of NE London in the late 70's. Put the problem of addiction back in the hands of doctors then the money goes away. As for the decline of the high street, Bezos is most likely to take the blame but dont forget the greed of Phillip Greene and his ilk raiding pension funds and asset stripping many of our favourite high street brands then leaving them to rot.
Not been to Oxford st in a while but there was a sharp decline in sweet shops with local councils telling billionaire commercial properly owners that they can no longer duck paying business taxes by having their space occupied by blatant money laundering opperations.
Quality of heroin has gone right down since UK and USA left Afghanistan...mostly synthetic now..
@@ricciottimolfese3500 shoutout ricciottimolfese giving use the REAL info
The only bit that is not good is where the money comes from. If we can just ignore that for a moment, then every one should be fine with this as every one is getting their fair share of the proceeds.
So, back to where it comes from. We just have to stop the source of the illegitimate income, then most of this other stuff as a result of it will also go away. Easier said than done as they say...
The reason they never investigate these shops is the same reason they avoided investigating the grooming gangs.
Really surprised there was no mention of all these vape shops popping up, especially when they sell to underage kids.
If normal shops oppened later then it would be so much better, right now so many shops close at 5 or even 4:30 on weekdays. How are people supposed to go shopping after their 9-5
Shopping where and for what? Brick & mortar has been dead for 15 years, there's nothing to shop at.
Also nobody wants to work a shitty retail job past the evening for minimum wage. The only retail stores that aren't hellholes to work at are charity shops. There's a reason staff turnover for these kinds of places is insane.
@@Splozy charity shops, shops like cex or head shops all close at 5:30-6 and are all shops i have gone to amazon instead of because i would get stuff faster
has anyone else noticed a lot of these barber shops all have the same type of expensive blingy fit outs
I can't believe there would be crime going on in the UK.
Youd have to get the pricelist & then have surveillance on the barbershop 24/7 & then check which style they'd had. Compare the surveillance vs the accounts submitted. No Police force can afford this
Same with USA! The Asian nail shops all never take card or pretend it’s ‘down’
I wondered into an American Candy sweet shop in Santa Monica last week and the candies are all the same price $17.99/ib . No full time staff and a massive $12000.00 monthly rent.
I'm also very suspicious of all those cake shops suddenly opening multiple times, on every high street, with very few customers.
Small fast food joints were the traditional money laundering machines. But you have to register input goods and packaging.... Tyre retailers similarly.... The local authorities are in on the act too. If the highstreets are empty it cuts their income from business rates. So they ensure these businesses are not investigated. It would be reasonably easy to check the veracity of tax returns. Just place an undercover IR officer on the highstreet and count the number of clients entering a shop. Compare the reciepts against the foot traffic actually crossing the threshold. If the average "alledged spend" is close to half a week's wages in the local area, shut the business and confiscate all of the assets... [people got to eat any pay rent].
Our town is full of fruit shops with six in the same block.
How they can make a living with an Aldi and Asda in the local area.......
Surely HMRC can just insist that every transaction must be receipted?
In India, every shop has a sign that says “If we don’t give you a receipt, your bill is zero”. I’m not sure how much it does though.
Years ago, there were rules of how many of the same type of shops would be allowed in a parade or high street. When this changed, I dont know but it definitively helped with the demise of the high street.
😂 there’s 4 firework shops in one 3 mile road in Bradford… how many people are wanting fireworks?
We have the same thing in our country town. Business that look good, but never have any customers and you think must be a money laundering exercise.
These barber shops and nail salons seem to be the only businesses that dont close down !!!!!!!