Cost sharing and VAT
How FlyerOS keeps flight cost sharing within the rules, and how it treats VAT so your export reflects what is and is not taxable in a members' club.
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A flying club is not a commercial operator, and its money is not taxed as if it were. FlyerOS is built around that difference so your figures are right without you having to remember the treatment on every line.
Cost sharing, kept within the rules
Cost sharing means members contribute towards the direct cost of a flight they take part in, rather than paying a hire charge to a business. FlyerOS charges the shared cost of a flight against the members on it, based on the hours flown, so the contribution follows the actual flying. That keeps the arrangement a genuine sharing of cost, not a sale of a service.
How VAT is treated
In a members' club a good deal of what moves is not a taxable supply: member contributions towards shared running costs sit differently from a commercial hire. FlyerOS records each charge with its VAT treatment, so a contribution is not silently taxed as if it were a sale, and anything that genuinely is taxable is marked as such.
The export tells the truth
When you export for your accountant or your accounting system, VAT comes through as recorded, line by line. Your accountant sees what was a shared cost and what was a taxable supply, rather than a single undifferentiated total they have to unpick.
Get advice on your own position
FlyerOS records the treatment you set. It does not decide your club's VAT status for you. If you are unsure whether your club should be registered, or how a particular activity should be treated, take that to your accountant, and set the treatment in FlyerOS to match.