How To Determine If Sole Trader Or Company Is The Best Option For Your New Landscaping Business

How To Determine If Sole Trader Or Company Is The Best Option For Your New Landscaping Business

If you are starting a landscaping business you doubtless already know that there are numerous decisions you have to make. These include what landscaping services you are going to offer, whether you undertake landscape design, construction, or both, and how many employees you plan to take on, to name but three.

In addition to these kinds of decisions related to how your landscaping business will operate, there are also several legal and financial decisions to make. These include how you are going to fund the start-up of your business, who your commercial lawyer is going to be, and whether you wish to operate as a sole trader or as a company.

The latter question seems to confuse many people who are starting a landscaping business for the first time. Given that it is a decision that will define the legal status of your business, plus make a difference to several aspects of the administrative requirements too, it is a subject worth covering in some more detail.

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Measurement Regulations That Apply When Selling Landscaping Materials

Measurement Regulations That Apply When Selling Landscaping Materials

It should be apparent to everyone that when landscapers undertake a project they will require all kinds of materials to fulfil it. What specific materials they will need, and how much of them they require, will depend on the needs and wants of the client who has hired them and the scale of the landscaping design that is going to be created.

When it comes time for a landscaper to purchase the materials they need, those purchases will be subject to rules, regulations, and standards set out by the Australian government relating to wholesale trade measurements and specifically those which apply to garden landscaping materials. When purchasing garden landscape materials the order can be fulfilled in one of three ways which are:

  • By weight
  • By volume
  • By lot (e.g. loader bucket, heap, and trailer load)

As for the types of landscaping materials that are subject to wholesale measurement laws, these include:

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