The two-chair studio has used 92.4 per cent of the threshold and has £6,800 of takings left before it registers
Salon VAT Threshold Planner
Salons have nowhere to hide: services, retail and chair rent all count towards the rolling twelve month test. Put your weekly takings in and see how close you are, how many weeks of headroom you have left, and what crossing does to your prices before the till decides for you.
Salon VAT Threshold Planner
Everything a salon sells counts toward the £90,000 rolling test. How close you are, and the splitting trap named before it tempts.
The trap with a name
Unlike a cafe or a creator, a salon has no outside-the-scope streams: services, retail and chair rent all count toward the rolling twelve-month test. The demo two-chair studio takes £1,600 a week and has used 92.4 per cent of the threshold.
The tempting move is splitting: hair in one business, beauty in another, each under the line. HMRC calls it disaggregation, looks for shared premises, staff, tills and branding, and can direct the businesses to be treated as one, with the VAT backdated.
The honest moves are real: price for VAT before crossing rather than after, time big retail pushes, and take the crossing deliberately with the flat rate and margins repriced. Talk to us before the till decides for you.
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The rolling test in Excel with the headroom and the warning line computed.
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