Over 70 builders and subbies have their licence suspended
The Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) has cancelled 71 licenses of builders and subcontractors.
The suspesions are a result of not submitting the necessary financial reports to the regulator.
As a result of the suspensions, these tradies and builders will be unable to take on any new work.
The idea behind the financial reporting requirement is to ensure that builders and other trades businesses are financially healthy enough to be taking on contracts. In theory it helps consumers by protecting them from financial unsound builders.
According to the QBCC, each of the 71 recent suspensions related to businesses with an allowable turnover of up to $200k. So we’re really talking about the smaller trades businesses here, rather than genuine builders.
QBCC Commissioner Anissa Levy says the licensees had plenty of time and were given plenty of warnings to comply.
“The licensees were reminded several times to lodge their reports but failed to submit the required information which was due on March 31.”
If these trades businesses don’t provide the required financial reports by 19 September their licences will be cancelled.
Do you you think this is a sign of the current difficult times in the building industry, or just the standard number of trades businesses that fall over each year?
You people at the QBCC are a bunch of redundent arseholes who are realy not needed at all, The government only started the QBCC to make jobs and bring unemploment numbers down. Before the QBCC was invented we had the Builders Registration Board and the Joint commitee for plumbing which we payed a fee for upto 5 years for our licences, Not a yearly fee like now, which only covers the home owner for insurance purposes, which the home owner should pay not the trades person, no wonder you find it hard to get people who want to become a trades person. All you people at the QBCC seem to do is look for tradies you can fine and put out of business because all the QBCC advertises is how many tradies they have fined this month, not how many tradies or home owners that they have helped. I think your yearly financial report you ask tradies for is not required as tradies have to have so many thousands of dollars in the bank so the can get a poxy contractor card to conduct their business and for what, so if they don’t finish a job QBCC insurances are supose to pay to have the job completed, but do you ever help tradies out when they don’t get payed by the owners or builders, No you don’t like most government departments you are made up of a bunch of usles areseholes who try to justify their job.