Disclaimer

Ceiling is a tracking tool, not advice

Ceiling helps you keep an eye on your turnover against the VAT registration threshold. It is not tax, legal or financial advice, and it does not replace an accountant or HMRC’s own guidance. Check with an accountant before you decide whether, or when, to register.

What Ceiling checks, and what it does not

Ceiling checks the backward look: whether your taxable turnover in any 12 months in a row has gone over £90,000. It does not check the forward look. GOV.UK says you must also register if you realise your total taxable turnover is going to go over £90,000 in the next 30 days alone.

Ceiling treats every figure you enter or import as VAT-taxable turnover. Taxable turnover is everything you sell that is not VAT exempt or “out of scope”, so leave those sales out of the figures you give it.

Figures and forecasts

Every figure Ceiling shows is worked out from the sales you enter or import, so it is only as accurate as they are. Its forecast assumes you carry on at your recent average; it is an estimate, not a prediction. The thresholds and rules are those published for the 2026/27 tax year, and HMRC can change them.

Where the rules come from

• VAT thresholds (opens in a new tab) on GOV.UK
• When to register for VAT (opens in a new tab) on GOV.UK
• The rise to £90,000 (opens in a new tab) on GOV.UK

Responsibility

Ceiling is provided by the Ceiling team as it is, free of charge. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for decisions you make using its figures, including when or whether you register for VAT. Nothing here limits any right you have that the law does not allow to be limited.

Spotted a mistake, or a rule that has changed? Email hello@vatline.uk.