Is this legal?

Ozzuk

Interesting idea! One thing that sprung to my mind - whoever is 'boarding' dogs for you would need an animal boarding establishment license. You would also need to be careful where liability sits if they lost their license or didn't have one and didn't tell you.

treecol

There are a lot of companies already out there doing what it sounds as though you want to do. A friend of mine boards dogs in her home & she gets all her contacts through the company who do all the advertising etc. She is CBT checked, insured & charges depending on what she does (ie: walking, boarding etc). Check out Pet Stay - she is with them.

Vectis

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If these people are self employed contractors but are only allowed to work for you, then by HMRC definition they are employees.

This is true. The rules for being self employed can be found on the HMRC site. If the person works for you exclusively then you are the employer.

As to insurance - would your insurer pay out if a dog being boarded by a third party got injured/sick? I can foresee big problems if a dog got sick. Who would pay the vet bills while the owner was away?

And why would any dog owner use you when they could go straight to the person who would be looking after their dog? Where's the benefit to the dog owner?

Slinky

Just for clarity, the VAT flat rate scheme you can join on turnover up to £150K and have to leave when it reaches £230K