Trade Accounts for Wall and Floor Tilers

[Tony73]

77k at present.
So Diamond makes an important point.

Is it? used to be 64k

 

[Bubblecraft]

I was sure it was £64k?

 

[bugs183]

It rose 1st April 2012 to 77K.

 

[Tony73]

and it's good thing

 

[ifindoubtgrout]

can someone tell me were a tiler can earn 75k please :drool5:

 

[DTile]

Do £30k fixing work to fix £45k worth of tiles, adhesive & grout you supply, and you're nearly at the VAT limit

 

[Dan]

It's worth being vat registered if all your clients are vat registered. And it's worth being vat registered during a businesses first couple of years of its about to purchase tools, stock, vehicles, etc - so a bigger business than perhaps you average tiler etc.

If you're a guy selling your time and skill, to homeowners who are never going to claim vat back, then its nearly always not worth it.

 

[Dan]

Vat not cat. Ha ill fix it when I'm on the computer tapatalk won't let me edit.

 

[John Benton]

Very interesting points - that VAT one had never occurred to me before, but is pretty critical.
We supply listellos, decorated tiles, mosaics etc, mostly to distributors & retailers. In view of your comments, maybe we should offer a tile fixer referral account. You point your customer/client to us (online), we supply them direct then pay you a commission equivalent to a trade discount?

When I get towards my year end this is what a couple of suppliers do for me. Obviously they can't give me cash as a commission, so I ask the customer to buy the tiles minus a %age of my discount and the difference is then deducted from my next purchase. That way I'm not having potentially thousands of £s worth of tiles going through my accounts.

 

[ifindoubtgrout]

dont see how supplying materials means you earn more, a paper shop might take 500 pound a day but its cost them 400, 100 pound profit,thats wat you earn.