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Not VAT-registered but high turnover?

15 May 2018 / Neil Warren
Issue: 4647 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Is it magic?

KEY POINTS

  • A business appears to have sales of more than £200 000 but is not VAT-registered.
  • Another business may be used to buy materials or customers may buy their own.
  • Two sole traders may be treated as a single partnership if they have organisational financial and economic links.
  • VAT threshold has been frozen at £85 000 until 2020.

How can a business appear to make annual taxable sales of more than £200 000 without being VAT-registered? That is impossible I hear you say; the registration threshold is only £85 000. This is the question I asked myself after a real situation I encountered with a bathroom fitter.

 

Background

Bill (real name has been changed) is a self-employed builder who specialises in the supply and installation of wet rooms. This...

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