Don't know about the business issue, but with a litte effort you can get yourself vat registered. You can then reclaim the vat on yer training.In essence you have to create a personnal business on paper . The idea is to convince them that post training you will probably be self employed doing charters/teaching etc before you get a fixed job from one employer. As far as I can make out as long as you repay them some earnt vat(not as much as you've saved) post training they aren't too worried.I'm no expert but I've just had HMCE send me the forms and sadly the booklets i need to read to fill in the forms, if you wanna know a little more drop us an email and i'll try to answer it.
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