Notes for UK garages

Photos at test are rolling out nationally, and the cessation rules changed in January. Neither alters the test itself. Both change what a te...

The requirement is not really about tax. It is about whether the number on your return can be traced back to the job that produced it.

The obligations are not complicated. Evidencing them a year later, when someone asks, is where most sites come unstuck.

The manual changes more often than anyone has time to read. A short routine beats an annual panic.

Not the disasters. The ninety pounds a week that leaves in ones and twos and never shows up as a problem.

Most reminder systems fail quietly, on the day a customer has their MOT done somewhere else and nobody updates the spreadsheet.

Not the filing. The bit that changes is where the job lives when the technician has their hands inside a wheel arch.

Matching the garage down the road copies their overhead, their productivity and their mistakes, none of which you can see.

A red-amber-green list is not a health check. The difference is whether the customer can see what you saw.