I think it comes under tax avoidance it does not matter if money changes hands but payment in lieu
Would it be legal to trade wine for ingredients?
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ISTR this came up in the context of the GBBF homebrew comp where they had a minister on camera swigging homebrew at Olympia, technically breaking the rules.
One big difference is that people generally pay to enter homebrew competitions, they're not being paid for alcohol. But ultimately with all these things the local licensing people have a lot of discretion, so it helps them to have "extreme" rules that they can ultimately refer the idiots to, whilst ignoring them for "orderly" events. In the same way that these commercial festivals where you pay up front for unlimited "tasters" are technically illegal, as they break the rule in which you can only serve draught beer in multiples of half-pints or thirds.
Most of the big competitions happen on licensed premises one way or another, so its the local licensing people who are that main ones that would pull you up, and they have a pretty good idea of which premises are responsible and which always try to pull a fast one.
But yes to go back to the original question, payment in kind is still regarded as payment.
up to thurso myself, as I realized it might be hard to get a decent beer staying in a chavelodge.
or was it a premier bin? - can't remember.
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I’m pretty sure HMRC would insist you are still selling alcohol even if the “currency” is unorthodox
I will up your "pretty" to "100%".
HMRC don't give a toot about what currency you get the gain in.
Else why do you pay tax on company cars and have a p11d return to report any "benefit in kind"
Red wine and diamonds used to be a loop hole, which was shutdown Oooo 30 odd years ago.
Free booze = freeloaders...
Hence the saying...greedy as a pig.
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