Category: Business

  • 15% VAT – How to work it out from 17.5% inc prices

    It appears a lot of people have been looking at my waffle on “Markup and Margins” page in order to convert prices from “inclusive of 17.5% VAT” to “inclusive of 15% VAT”. By the way, if you’re not in the UK, VAT = Value Added Tax and after many many years of it being 17.5%,…

  • VAT Rate changes – more work for the printing industry, more non revenue generating office work for me

    Great*, The VAT Rate has changed from 17.5% to 15%. *Great as in, I’m not sure if I like it or not! I think that may actually help the economy but for a different reason to what Alistair Darling may expect…. it means that all of our printed price lists will be out of date…

  • We featured on ITN National news

    I’ve got a backlog of things I want to post, delayed by a backlog of things I need spend time on at work first, but this one jumps all the queues. Our family business (Roots Kitchens Bedrooms Bathrooms) was featured on ITN news as a small business case study. The wonders of modern technology mean…