We are going to start a hotel
business with partners as proprietary limited business and select a name ABC
for our business. We also claim for GST for our business. In our initial
planning, we are going to appoint almost 25 employees including staff members
and contractors. We obtain commercial property on leasing and make some
adjustment for dining area outside. We plan to set a restaurant, a bar with
proper licenses, a bottle shop and a café with outdoor setting. For stating
business, we are going to take a licenses for the legal requirement by
government. In our report, we are
discussing all the details that is important for getting licenses and all the
laws and regulations that must be implemented for doing the business. So after
determining all these legal issues, we can start our business without any
disturbance and issue.
We are going to start proprietary
limited business and in our business we also start restaurant, leasing option,
café, bar and bottle shop. So first of all we have to get license of all these areas.
For business of hotel business
company is more
complicated structure to start up and many legal and taxation obligations are
going to involve in the company. Registering a company will cost $488 for
proprietary business limited. When the Australian securities and investment
commission register the company, an American company number going to receive. Before
you can get your ABN, firstly you have to obtain ACN for registration. For the
business, company must have separate bank account. Depending on the type of
account, company is liable for bank fees. (business.gov.au, 2018)
For leasing of hotel business
property management
required to engage the business with managing rental and leasing property.
Pre-licensing instructions or course work from an approved source, passing a
property manager exams and continuing education classes involve property
management licenses. For obtaining the property management licenses, 18 years’
age is compulsory and graduated from high school, pass a criminal back ground
check and be in good standing with the state of real estate board to receive
the property management licenses. (Miller, 2017)
For restaurant of hotel business
the following
license and permits are required to open restaurant. First of all, Government
Issue license must be obtaining to operate legally. This include $50 as
registration fee and $25 to $500 the filing fee for license. Check the Australian
small business administration website for further details. Also state
government provide application procedure. For serving alcohol, we will required
to get liquor license that include the rules of obtaining and keeping license. But
it is very difficult to acquire. The average cost for this license was $381000
and in a few notable instance the price going to high and reached to $900000.
Full liquor license available from $12000 to $400000. Food service licenses
provided by health department as apply online with name and location and its
fee depend on the size and seating of the restaurant which cost range from $100
to $1000. Restaurant also require employee identification number assigned by
the IRS which is basically the tax ID number. Employee health permit also
required. That provide assurance about the preparation regulation, protection, and
storage and food sanitation. Its cost may vary but fall between $100 to $500
and going to expire from 3 to 5 years. (Noyes, 2017)
Business who run without license
can be ceased with its operations. And after getting the license the business
can run freely. The infraction legally is deepening on the size, depth and
location of the industry. Fines will have to be bear if no license going to be
obtain by the business and additional fee also going to pay. But there is also
possibility to law suit by the government sectors who issue license and
business run with the permission or license. Due to this the reputation of the
organization going to lost and it image going to be poor in front of its
customers. Business also has to face many penalties if they are not issuing a
license. (Francis, 2019)
The business government and laws
are categorizing into 7 different types. With the help of business lawyer, you
can determine what regulation is most suitable for you. The first thing is tax
code and this include income tax, estimated tax, employment tax and excise tax.
Employment and labor law include wages and hours, workplace safety and health,
equal opportunities, non-Australian citizen workers, employee benefit security,
poster, family and medical leave and unions. Antitrust law includes conspiring
to fix market prices, price discrimination, conspiring to boycott, conspiring
to allocate markets or customers and monopolization. Effective advertising
strategy, environmental regulations, privacy and state licensing. (Wood, 2018)
Proper employee protection laws
also implemented in the organizations to provide safety and security related to
their life and jobs. Some protections are given by federal are minimum wages,
workplace safety, health coverage, social security, unemployment benefits,
whistleblower protections, family leave and employment base discrimination. (KURT, 2019)
Legal requirements for employment
records include all the record related to employee must be kept annually.
Written or electronic data must be recorded. Employer have to keep all the
records of all employees. For not keeping the employment record, employer can have
fined up to $5000 by the industrial magistrate’s court. Record keeping
requirement include name of employee, date of birth, date of starting
employment, total number of hours going to work, gross and net amount paid to
employees, deductions and their reasons, leaves and their details and all
information required for long service leave.
Six different templates help the employer to keep the record and meet
all the legal obligations include long service leave record templet, sick and
care leave record, annual leave, employment details, pay slip and time and wage
record. (wa.gov.au, 2019)
In the business, there are some
terms related to insurance and every business has to handle all these are:
business interruption insurance, business owner policy, actual cash value,
certificate of insurance, property insurance, professional liability insurance,
premium, named peril, general liability, endorsement, deductible, and quote
related to business. (Meenasian, 2019) the institution of business ethics
implementing and developing codes of conduct including making business ethics
work, ethics at work a national survey, corporate use of code of ethics and
developing code of business ethics. (icaew.com, 2019)
There are some prohibitions for
employers that follow or implement by the prohibition employment policies. This
is going to discuss many major issues related to employment and their job descriptions,
like job advertisement, recruitment, application and hiring, job assignment and
promotions, pay and benefits, disciplines and discharge, employment reference,
reasonable accommodation and disability, reasonable accommodation and religion,
training and apprenticeship program. Harassment, terms and conditions of
employment, pre-employment inquiries and dress code. (eeoc.gov, 2019)
There are also many obligations
and rights related to employers and employees and they must be implemented
within the organization and provide proper support to all employees that
provide help and supporting hands for their services and payments.
Conclusion of hotel business
After all the discussion and
above records and maintain the business information, we conclude that every
business need proper rules and regulations. It has to follow proper laws and
legislations that are support providing to all the business including its
employers and employees. Every business has to follow some rules. There are
different government sectors are present that are providing assurance related
to type of business and according to business specification legal permission
also provided to business so they can run their transactions more effectively
and efficiently. For running the business proper name according to its legal
representation also presented by the business because every business has its
own specialty and ever business have to present its specifications and prove
them legally. With this, proper licensing also required by every business
according to its special tasks and transactions. In short we can say that for
starting any business, proper procedure must be required and follow by the
owner of the business to make it legal and run without any issue. Proper
licensing and laws and legislations are very important for business and also
for tax purpose and insurance as it also provide benefit to business in every
terms and enhance its working more effectively.
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