This reminds me of a scam that was perpetrated by a group of landlords in Cardiff in the early 1990’s although at the time the issue was either collective or individual poll tax.
The landlords were raking it in by letting out flats and houses to homeless families on a so called B&B basis. The so called breakfast was a packet of cornflakes from one of the landord’s supermarket once a week, plus a pint of milk a day.
They were eventually prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud and got two years a piece. The judge told the jury in no uncertain terms that B&L must involve a preapred meal and a box of cornflakes plus a bottle of milk is not a prepared meal, it is simply the provison of soem groceries.
I said at the time that nobody would rent a self contained property on a B&L basis. Why would you want someone cooking meals for you on a regular basis at great expense, and have hire out your own kitchen for them to do it?
You might want to do that for a special party, but not every day.
Some very basic questions that need to be asked are:
1) What do the meals consist of?
2)Where are they prepared?
3)Who prepares them?
4) What time are they prepared?
5)Where are they consumed?
6) What time are they comsumed?
Only then will you be able to decide whther this is a genuine or sham B&L arrangement
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