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🏛️ Business Structure: Sole Trader, Partnership or Company

An interactive 3D model comparing sole trader, partnership and limited company structures for a UK beekeeping business, including registration steps.

Economics & Social Systems3DModerate60 FPS

A single stream of business profit flows differently depending on whether it belongs to a sole trader, a partnership or a limited company — this 3D scene shows the tax split, the number of owners, and whether a liability shield stands between the business and personal assets.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Sole traders and partners pay Income Tax and National Insurance on the whole profit directly; a limited company pays Corporation Tax first, then owners pay dividend tax on what's distributed — and only the company has a liability shield protecting personal assets.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a structure, set the number of owners and the annual profit, then watch the profit particles split between the tax building and each owner. Toggle the registration steps and the personal-asset exposure to compare the paperwork and the risk.

💡 Did You Know?

Company profit can be taxed twice — once as Corporation Tax, once as dividend tax on the owner — yet limited companies remain popular because the liability shield keeps personal assets like a house or car out of reach of business creditors.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D scene comparing sole trader, partnership and limited company structures, showing profit particles splitting between tax and take-home pay, a liability shield around company owners, and registration steps at HMRC/Companies House.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install