Is it ME????

[inspiredandy]

Is it me or are there any others who are absolutly dead at the mo? My prices have always been competitive, but recently I have lost the majority of estimates that I have put out there even after reducing my day rate charges. Do you think that being VAT registerd could be having an effect?

I cant afford to drop prices any lower and I wont cut corners.

Any responses appreciated by one seriously cheesed off tiler.:mad2:

 

[Spud]

where are you based ?

 

[inspiredandy]

Hi Gary

Based in Puriton, Somerset

 

[UKTT Darren]

Its going to be difficult to compete in the domestic world if you are vat registered and adding the vat onto the job as you are competing with people who are not, its a bit unfare really, you may have to reduce your prices back in line with those who aint until you can get back to the commercial sector

 

[brian c]

I beleive thoings are getting a heluve lot tighter at the moment...so you are not alone m8.

 

[Colour Republic]

Its going to be difficult to compete in the domestic world if you are vat registered and adding the vat onto the job as you are competing with people who are not, its a bit unfare really, you may have to reduce your prices back in line with those who aint until you can get back to the commercial sector

He may or may not be in the commercial sector, It doesn't take much to be required to have vat registration even more so when you supply materials:mad2:

Who else is up for trades having VAT lowered to 5% to get things moving again?

 

[UKTT Darren]

Count me in, youve got my vote, Colour Republic for Prime Minister

 

[Frosty]

Personally I don't think there should be vat on any labour, that puts all trades on an even basis straight away.

It downright annoys me effectively being an unpaid tax collector ontop of running my own business.

And moving the rate again won't make any difference, other than scrapping it on all renovation/remedial works. It cost me enough time and money when they changed it in December:mad2:

 

[davy_G]

If you are not supplying materials on a regular basis and things are tight then, without knowing your particular situation, you you could de register by argueing you dont have the turnover and are not likely to in the future.

You could still supply mats, just get the shop to keep the money in your account with them.

VAT is a killer for a tradesman pricing domestic work against the average tiler who is not VAT registered.

 

[mike walker]

Hi mate im in the south and it pretty grim down here, I have lost quite a few jobs maybe there are just too many of us out there it seems to me every Tom Dick or Harry thinks its an easy way to earn good money and these 2 week tiling corses dont help you just cant learn a trade in that time Ive been doing it 15 years and I still come across things Ive not seen before.