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32 guides written against United Kingdom rules, not translated from somewhere else. Every one of them ends somewhere you can act.
The Construction Industry Scheme
10 guides
VAT for UK construction
7 guides
Getting paid on UK construction
13 guides
Pricing construction work in the UK
9 guides
Starting a construction business in the UK
5 guides
Construction bookkeeping in the UK
4 guides
CSCS cards and site tickets
6 guides
Finding construction work in the UK
3 guides
Payment notices and adjudication
7 guides
Retention on UK construction
4 guides
CIS deduction calculator
Labour and materials in. The deduction at 20%, 30% and 0%, with materials and plant hire stripped out of the base first.
Construction VAT rate checker
Not every job is 20%. New dwellings are zero rated and a two-year empty home is 5%, with the conditions each rate depends on.
Hourly rate calculator
Overhead, billable days and the wage you want in. The hourly rate that pays for all three.
Markup and margin calculator
Add twenty percent to your costs and you keep sixteen point seven. Enter one job and see the price, the profit, both percentages, and what the mix-up is worth in dollars.
Making Tax Digital countdown
Qualifying income in. Which MTD for Income Tax tranche catches you, the date it starts, and the days left.
VAT reverse charge calculator
Six conditions decide whether you charge VAT at all. Answer them and the page builds the invoice, CIS deduction and all.
One email a month. The VAT reverse charge, Construction VAT rate and CIS deduction arithmetic this site already does for you, the dates it turns on, and every new guide the day it goes up.
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