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  • Playtime’s over? Reeves’s tax raid threatens children’s play centres

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    The UK’s indoor play industry has warned it faces a “severe financial crisis” following the Chancellor’s multi-billion pound Budget tax raid. The Association of Indoor Play, which represents 1,100 firms including laser parks, leisure centres and “baby sensory” companies, said Rachel Reeves’s fiscal plans threatened “the very core of our industry” and placed many indoor [...]

    The NAO has warned against making private finance decisions as a means to avoid accounting classifications or achieve ‘off balance sheet’ investment and the eventual costs of maintaining or upgrading assets if they are handed back by the private sector. If costs are not accounted for properly, taxpayers will be exposed to the risks of higher public expenditure over the long term.

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