Chipping Sodbury Golf Club

  • ‘Raise VAT’ call leads to angry backlash

    Seamus Rotherick

    Proprietary golf clubs have been derided as ‘soulless’ in reaction to a call for VAT to be increased on membership subscriptions at private members’ clubs and reduced at profit-making ones.

  • Clubs hope for six figure windfalls

    Alistair Dunsmuir

    If Chipping Sodbury wins then private members’ clubs could recover some of the VAT paid on membership subscriptions between 1973 and 1990.

  • Cost of golf to be challenged in court

    Alistair Dunsmuir

    A golf venue is taking the UK government to court over the definition of membership of a golf club.

  • Full review of the 2011 GCMA conference

    Alistair Dunsmuir

    The GCMA’s captain, John Dinsdale, and chief executive, Keith Lloyd, opened the event by talking about the importance of sharing ideas.