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.