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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/making-jira-work-for-a-small-team#faq-5","position":5,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/making-jira-work-for-a-small-team#faq-5","name":"Why does nobody on my team update Jira?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Almost always because updating it costs more than it gives back. Too many required fields, statuses nobody can define reliably, and a board that does not reflect how the team actually works. Remove fields until creating a ticket takes under a minute, cut statuses to five, and automate the transitions that can be driven from your code repository. Adoption usually follows without anyone being asked to try harder.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-to-charge#faq-1","position":1,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-to-charge#faq-1","name":"How do I work out what to charge for my product or service?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Start with contribution: your price minus the variable cost of delivering one more unit. Divide your fixed costs by that figure and you have the number of sales you need to break even. That establishes your floor. What you charge above the floor depends on what the outcome is worth to the customer and what alternatives they have. Cost tells you the minimum. Value tells you the maximum.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-to-charge#faq-2","position":2,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-to-charge#faq-2","name":"What is the difference between margin and markup?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Margin is profit as a percentage of the selling price. Markup is profit as a percentage of the cost. An item costing £60 and selling at £100 has a 40% margin and a 67% markup. Confusing them causes systematic underpricing. To achieve a 40% margin you divide the cost by 0.6, giving £100. Adding 40% to the cost gives £84, which is only a 29% margin.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-to-charge#faq-4","position":4,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-to-charge#faq-4","name":"How often should I review my prices?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"At least once a year, and whenever your costs move noticeably. A price held flat for three years is a real-terms price cut that nobody consciously decided to take. An annual review also makes increases feel routine rather than exceptional, which makes them much easier for customers to accept.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-your-marketing-is-worth#faq-2","position":2,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-your-marketing-is-worth#faq-2","name":"How do I calculate customer lifetime value?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Multiply gross profit per order by orders per year by the number of years a customer typically stays. At £300 gross profit, two orders a year, for three years, lifetime value is £1,800. Use gross profit rather than revenue. Calculating lifetime value from revenue overstates it by the size of your cost of sale, which is the most common error in this calculation.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-your-marketing-is-worth#faq-4","position":4,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/what-your-marketing-is-worth#faq-4","name":"What should I include in marketing cost?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Everything spent winning new customers: advertising, agency and freelancer fees, content production, marketing software, event costs, and the salaries or commission of anyone doing marketing and sales. If you do the selling yourself, include a realistic cost for your time. Leaving it out is the most common way small businesses arrive at a CAC that looks much better than reality.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/where-ai-earns-its-place#faq-1","position":1,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/where-ai-earns-its-place#faq-1","name":"This is a good first candidate","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"If you answered: Daily or weekly › Yes, broadly the same › No, it needs judgement or language › Yes, immediately Frequent, consistent in shape, genuinely needs language or judgement, and errors are visible immediately. That is exactly the profile worth starting with. Before you build anything, measure how long the task currently takes across two weeks. Without that baseline you will not be able to prove whether it worked, and you will end up arguing about impressions instead of hours.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/where-ai-earns-its-place#faq-2","position":2,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/where-ai-earns-its-place#faq-2","name":"Not a good first project","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"If you answered: Daily or weekly › Yes, broadly the same › No, it needs judgement or language › Possibly not for weeks Errors that surface slowly are the expensive kind. Anything feeding accounts, tax, pricing, safety or compliance belongs in this category, and a confident wrong answer in those areas can cost far more than the automation saves. Pick something more visible for your first project. Come back to this once you have built the habit of checking output and have a review step you trust.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/where-ai-earns-its-place#faq-4","position":4,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/guides/where-ai-earns-its-place#faq-4","name":"Probably not worth automating yet","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"If you answered: A few times a year Infrequent tasks rarely justify the setup, testing and maintenance that automation needs. Even a perfect solution that saves an hour four times a year saves four hours. Write the process down instead. If it later becomes frequent, you will already have the documentation that any automation would need anyway.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":["WebPage","FAQPage"],"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company","url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company","name":"Sole Trader vs Limited Company Calculator 2025/26","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https://verislabs.co.uk/assets/social-card.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-14","dateModified":"2026-09-22","description":"Free calculator: compare take-home pay as a sole trader against a limited company at any profit level, on 2025/26 tax, NI and dividend rates.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company"]}],"about":{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#app"},"mainEntity":[{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-1"},{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-2"},{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-3"},{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-4"},{"@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-5"}]}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-1","position":1,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-1","name":"Is a limited company always better than being a sole trader?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No. On take-home pay alone for 2025/26, a limited company only wins over a fairly narrow band of profit, roughly £55,000 to £75,000, and usually by a few hundred pounds. Below and above that range a sole trader typically keeps more, because company profit is taxed twice: corporation tax first, then dividend tax when you draw it. There are still strong non-tax reasons to incorporate, including limited liability, winning work from clients who will not contract with sole traders, and the ability to leave profit in the company rather than being taxed on all of it every year.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-2","position":2,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-2","name":"At what profit should I set up a limited company?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"There is no longer a clean threshold. The old advice of incorporating around £30,000 to £40,000 of profit dates from when corporation tax was a flat 19% and Class 4 National Insurance was 9%. Corporation tax now reaches 25% and Class 4 NI has been cut to 6%, which removed most of the gap. Run your own figure through the calculator, then subtract roughly £500 to £1,500 a year for accountancy and filing. If the remaining advantage is small, decide on liability and commercial factors instead.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-5","position":5,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/sole-trader-vs-limited-company#faq-5","name":"Does it include the cost of running a limited company?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No. The comparison is tax only. A limited company also brings annual accounts, a confirmation statement, a corporation tax return, payroll if you take a salary, and usually an accountant. Budget somewhere between £500 and £1,500 a year for that, and treat any tax advantage smaller than this as no advantage at all.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}
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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","@id":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/vat-threshold-forecaster#faq-4","position":4,"url":"https://verislabs.co.uk/resources/tools/vat-threshold-forecaster#faq-4","name":"Should I register for VAT voluntarily?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It can be worth it if your customers are mostly VAT-registered businesses, because they reclaim the VAT you charge while you reclaim VAT on your own costs. The net effect is often a saving. If you sell mainly to consumers it usually hurts, because your prices effectively rise 20% with no benefit to the customer. Weigh it against the extra administration of returns and Making Tax Digital record keeping.","inLanguage":"en-GB"},"inLanguage":"en-GB"}