Sam, you clearly don't understand VAT. Reaching the threshold and registering for VAT will REDUCE the tax a business pays, as it will now be able to reclaim from HMRC the VAT it has paid to its VAT-registered suppliers. Neither will the business itself pay any VAT to HMRC. What it will have to do is charge its customers VAT and pass this on to HMRC.
That's why small businesses are reluctant to breach the threshold and register - because they fear that having to put their prices up by 20% will discourage their customers from ordering and hence reduce their income.
Yes, well, putting solar farms on productive farmland in a wet country latitude 52 degrees North is on the far ultra-violet edge of the stupid spectrum.
Legalising onshore wind, in the context you mean, won't make it legal.
That's because the windiest places with fewest local people to be bothered by any development are all in National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Over 20% of England land area and all the hilliest bits with the odd exception already saturated with turbines. These would be the most productive locations, and accessible if only access could be granted. But protected spaces can't put in access, let alone put in the turbines themselves. Legalise onshore wind by all means, but it won't mean turbines going up in the windiest places.
Also true that sites smaller than 50MW are able to connect at distribution level and don't usually require a generation licence or agreement with National Grid, curtailment or participation in the BM. There are reasons for the 50MW cap, and the cap has to be set somewhere - at what point would you suggest sites don't need to be responsible for their output - should you have to have a generation license for the 4kw on your roof? There may be multiple reasons for this cliff.
Sam, you clearly don't understand VAT. Reaching the threshold and registering for VAT will REDUCE the tax a business pays, as it will now be able to reclaim from HMRC the VAT it has paid to its VAT-registered suppliers. Neither will the business itself pay any VAT to HMRC. What it will have to do is charge its customers VAT and pass this on to HMRC.
That's why small businesses are reluctant to breach the threshold and register - because they fear that having to put their prices up by 20% will discourage their customers from ordering and hence reduce their income.
Yes, well, putting solar farms on productive farmland in a wet country latitude 52 degrees North is on the far ultra-violet edge of the stupid spectrum.
"...businesses with annual turnovers equal to or exceeding £85,000 do not have to register ..."
'Exceeding' should be 'less than'.
Legalising onshore wind, in the context you mean, won't make it legal.
That's because the windiest places with fewest local people to be bothered by any development are all in National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Over 20% of England land area and all the hilliest bits with the odd exception already saturated with turbines. These would be the most productive locations, and accessible if only access could be granted. But protected spaces can't put in access, let alone put in the turbines themselves. Legalise onshore wind by all means, but it won't mean turbines going up in the windiest places.
Also true that sites smaller than 50MW are able to connect at distribution level and don't usually require a generation licence or agreement with National Grid, curtailment or participation in the BM. There are reasons for the 50MW cap, and the cap has to be set somewhere - at what point would you suggest sites don't need to be responsible for their output - should you have to have a generation license for the 4kw on your roof? There may be multiple reasons for this cliff.
Anything that hinders the expansion of the economically and environmentally ridiculous "Unreliables" gets my vote.
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/clean-energy-saving-the-planet-by
Would you hope to see both a less onerous NSIP and more gradation in terms of how much regulation projects of a certain size have to face?