Mark, you have got this one back to front. The reason you get the inspections is precisely because you do try to stick to the rules, and therefore do not provide as much scope for the BIB (and Music Police, etc, etc) to collect their tea money.

Those bars which provide more dubious services, or try to operate without "proper licences" only do so by paying considerably more in "facilitation fees", so they don't get bothered by fire escapes or the like.