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🍯 UK Beekeeping Tax Guide: Hobby, Sideline or Business?

A 3D honey-sales road that shows exactly where hobby beekeeping tips into taxable trading, when Self Assessment kicks in, and when VAT registration becomes compulsory.

Animals & Their World3DModerate60 FPS

A honey jar travels a 3D road as you raise annual honey sales, crossing gates at the £1,000 trading allowance and the £90,000 VAT threshold — the two real HMRC lines that decide whether you're a tax-free hobbyist, a self-assessed sideline seller, or a VAT-registered business.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Taxable profit is revenue minus either the flat £1,000 trading allowance or itemised expenses; a coin stack above the marker shows the resulting income tax estimate. Two threshold gates mark exactly where reporting duties change, regardless of how much profit is actually made.

🎮 How to Use

Drag annual honey sales to move the jar along the road. Toggle between the trading allowance and itemised expenses, adjust expenses and income tax band, and watch the status, taxable profit, tax estimate and VAT requirement update live.

💡 Did You Know?

VAT registration is compulsory purely on turnover, not profit — a beekeeping business selling £90,000+ of honey a year must register even if expenses leave almost no profit at all.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D honey-sales road that shows exactly where hobby beekeeping tips into taxable trading, when Self Assessment kicks in, and when VAT registration becomes compulsory.

бджільництвооподаткуваннясамозайнятістьпдвсамісейшментмедоносцібізнесThree.js

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