Learn the Music Industry
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The rules don't care what a client sells, only how much.

Take a client whose licensing income is up and whose live fee has risen. Between touring, sessions, and a few broadcast placements, they clear the £90,000 mark in rolling twelve-month turnover.

The trigger has been crossed: it is time to register for .

Most musicians treat VAT as something that belongs to shops, not artists. But once the threshold is crossed, VAT is not optional. This episode sets out what that actually means, and how an adviser turns it from a headache into a mild advantage.