{"id":16196,"date":"2022-04-19T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T08:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16196"},"modified":"2022-04-19T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T08:03:38","slug":"more-support-for-hospitality-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/04\/19\/more-support-for-hospitality-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"More support for hospitality businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thousands of hospitality businesses will have an extra four months to pay their annual liquor licence fees.
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Minister for Hospitality and Racing Kevin Anderson said it was important the NSW Government offer this assistance to up to 18,600 hospitality businesses which were hit hard by the pandemic.\u00a0
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\u201cWe recognise that COVID-19 has had a significant impact on thousands of our State\u2019s pubs, clubs, restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses,\u201d Mr Anderson said.
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\u201cThe extension is applicable to all liquor licensees, so we encourage businesses to take the extra time to pay if they feel it will help their bottom line.\u201d
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Mr Anderson said invoices for the annual liquor licence fees will be issued as usual this month, with the due date postponed from 30 May to 30 September.
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\u201cWe want to put businesses and workers first so they can continue to be the lifeblood for local communities across the state,\u201d Mr Anderson said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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Australian Hotels Association NSW CEO John Whelan said this extension is good news for the hospitality industry.
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\u201cHotels have been doing it tough for more than two years now – even when hotel doors finally opened across the state, the restrictions meant venues were operating at half capacity or less until just a couple of months ago.
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\u201cHotels in the recent flood-affected areas are now also dealing with many additional challenges as they struggle to get back on their feet. We thank the NSW Government for its support,\u201d Mr Whelan said.
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Mr Anderson said annual fees were automatically waived for most liquor licences at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
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Eligible venues are still able to apply for fee waivers on financial hardship grounds.
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To apply, visit:\u00a0www.liquorandgaming.nsw.gov.au\/operating-a-business\/liquor-licences\/liquor-licence-fees\/annual-liquor-licence-fees\/fee-waiver-application<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of hospitality businesses will have an extra four months to pay their annual liquor licence fees.\u00a0Minister for Hospitality and Racing Kevin Anderson said it was important the NSW Government offer this assistance to up to 18,600 hospitality businesses which were hit hard by the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe recognise that COVID-19 has had a significant impact on … Continue reading “More support for hospitality businesses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16197,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196\/revisions\/16197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}