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Eight calculators and a compliance calendar, each built around a question a practice principal or a locum vet would recognise. No sign-up, no email wall, and every result prints or saves.
Eight calculators and a compliance calendar, each built around a question a practice principal or a locum vet would recognise. No sign-up, no email wall, and every result prints or saves.
“What does a cap on written prescriptions do to our income?”
Your own prescription volumes and current charges against a capped fee, so you can see the revenue line before it moves. The binding figure is not settled, so the tool lets you flex it.
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“Is this practice actually profitable, or just busy?”
Turnover in, EBIT margin out — and where that margin sits against the CMA's own sample of 36 independent practices, which ran from minus 9% to plus 34%.
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“What is my day rate actually worth after tax?”
Day rate and days worked in, take-home out: income tax, Class 4 National Insurance and the monthly amount to set aside, on 2026/27 rates and thresholds.
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“Would I be better off in a company?”
Sole trader against a limited company on 2026/27 rates, including the dividend increase on 6 April 2026 and the associated-companies divisor most comparisons ignore.
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“What would a buyer actually be paying for here?”
A scored review of what a buyer prices in a first opinion practice. It deliberately returns no multiple and no valuation, because no primary source publishes either.
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“What does this equipment really cost us after tax?”
What imaging, surgical kit or a practice fit-out costs once tax relief is in the figure, and how much of it lands in year one rather than trickling out over a decade.
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“Can we improve pensions without increasing the wage bill?”
What a pension salary sacrifice scheme saves the practice and what it gives your nurses and support team, with the Employment Allowance trap made visible.
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“Are we paying more rates than we should be?”
What the practice pays on the 2026/27 multipliers, why veterinary premises are outside the retail rate, and when a branch surgery pays nothing.
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“What is coming, and when does it have to be done by?”
RCVS registration renewal, the £85 nurse renewal cycle, premises registration on 1 April, the annual veterinary medicines audit and five-year record retention, corporation tax, VAT quarters, payroll dates, self assessment, Making Tax Digital quarterly updates and the confirmation statement. One page, built to be printed and pinned up.
Open the calendar“Can somebody just explain this properly?”
Plain-English guides to the CMA remedies, RCVS and premises compliance, veterinary medicines records, practice pricing, locum tax and IR35, buying and selling a practice, incorporation, payroll and employment rights, and capital allowances on equipment — with the article numbers and the dates they apply from.
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None of these is a lead magnet with the arithmetic hollowed out. Each runs on the same rates, thresholds and article references we would use on your real figures.
There are no valuation multiples anywhere on this site. Not EBITDA multiples, not price per full-time-equivalent vet, not a percentage of turnover. No primary source publishes them, and the CMA's final report — which had full access to the financial records of the six large groups and a sample of independents — deliberately does not. Any multiple you have seen in trade press or broker material cannot be traced to a primary source, so we will not repeat it. What the CMA does publish, and what we will happily work through with you, is the profitability evidence above and its pre-tax cost of capital range of 7.5% to 10.5% a year, midpoint 9%.
Every tool prints cleanly and saves as a PDF from the print dialogue, so a result can go into a partners' meeting pack rather than living on one screen. The calculators are illustrative and simplification is what makes them quick: they do not know about your associated companies, your capital allowances position, a partner taxed at Scottish rates, or the specific mix of your parasiticide sales. Use the number to decide whether the question is worth asking properly, then ask us for the accurate version — that part is free. If you would rather start with what is coming up, the compliance calendar is the shortest route.
Every tool here has a free human follow-up: a conversation about your practice's actual figures, with no obligation and no automated follow-up sequence.
One short email: what has moved on the CMA remedies, the dates coming up, and one number worth checking in your practice. No spam, unsubscribe any time.