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health club owners may be due tax relief The Age of Austerity rolls on: the UK is back in recession and the future of the Eurozone is anyone’s guess. Like all businesses, UK gyms will be feeling it. But there’s some good news for health
clubs in the form of big cash windfalls through unused capital allowances tax relief. This valuable form of tax relief is available to anyone incurring capital expenditure buying, building or making adjustments to commercial property. According to accountancy firm
Deloitte, nine in 10 owners of UK commercial property – such as health clubs – will be due a rebate from HMRC through unused capital allowances tax relief. Claims can range from tens to hundreds of thousands of pounds. But why is so little known about
Health clubs need to rethink how they address the issues of body image
gyms must move away from promoting the perfect body
While it’s a worrying statistic, sadly I wasn’t too surprised to read that one in four people are depressed about their bodies (HCM June 12, p50), as we know the main reason people join health clubs is to lose weight. If the overall reason for joining a gym
relates to body image, then that will be the only measure of whether someone’s membership has been a success. As an industry, we need to be more
focused on the many other benefits of exercise. If we promote our clubs and centres using ‘perfect’ body images, people will join under the assumption that we can help them look just like that. But body image is such a hard thing to have an impact on, and of course we will struggle to keep members if we don’t help them attain their number one goal.
8 If your members haven’t achieved
their six-pack by the end of eight weeks, they may think their membership isn’t working, when in fact they may be fitter and healthier, and already had a massively positive effect on their overall health. People need to understand that
there’s more to their membership than a six-pack. Body Training Solutions (BTS) classes are all about using real people. Obviously our instructors are very fit – they exercise day in, day out – but we try not to be too elitist. We promote inclusion and aim to show that anyone and everyone can take part in our eight group exercise classes, helping improve their overall health. fergus ahern director, integrity fi tness (UK distributor of BTS group exercise classes)
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unclaimed capital allowances? Understandably, the Revenue isn’t especially keen to alert people to it. The other problem is that identifying capital allowances within commercial properties is complex, involving items such as air conditioning, heating systems, lighting, sprinkler and security systems. However, capital allowances firms can carry out in-depth forensic surveys of properties. Best of all, they only charge a fee if they identify a sizeable amount of capital allowances. It’s worth checking out. mark tighe md, ca tax solutions
UK gyms are feeling the pinch, but many will be due tax relief
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