On 2008-07-21 19:25:34 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Andy Hall wrote:


That depends on what one considers to be a lot.

Dave will comment, I'm sure, but I would expect a handyman business to
be more time than materials intensive in terms of cost and what is
invoiced to the customer.

At the current level of around £65k at which registration is
mandatory, the recoverable VAT would be predominantly on materials
purchased and on fuel plus a few other small bits and pieces.. On
the output side, he will have increased his prices by 17.5% for no
good reason.

Nail, hit, head.

It would be interesting to work out what your revenue would have to be
to compensate this and make it worth registration. That would be
difficult, because it's hard to work out what the lost business would
be at a higher price point.

I suspect what can be made by one person working on their own in this
work would not go all that much higher anyway, although I guess that if
it could, one could always have two limited companies and put some
revenue through each.