Good point Simon.
Buy a machine for £ 2000.00 inc vat now and you save £50.00. That brings it down to £1950.00
Then....Its a capital asset so you can have tax relief over 3 years.
£1950 divide by 3 = £650 comes off your annual turnover. So that’s £182 ish relief off the value of the machine per annum.
In reality the machine has cost you after 3 years £1404.00 to buy.
Matt