Hospitality businesses plead for governments to act on red tape

Businesses having to spend 50K plus on Government Red Tape is an appalling waste of time and money, and highly damaging to business viability. The $50 billion Hospitality sector is united in calling out the impact of government red tape on business profitability. Foodservice Suppliers, Distributors and Retailers say hard-working, family-owned businesses are spending tens of thousands of dollars in time and money abiding by increasingly complex government red tape and compliance. At a time when the cost of doing business is extremely challenging, and margins are thin, red tape and compliance is one area governments have control over, yet business reports an increase of 60 per cent in the impact of regulation on business in the past twelve months. (ACCI survey). If the government really cared about business, then this is one way to help!