Working From Home Retail Business

Why? Another thread suggests that including your VAT number is not mandatory and, in fact, might be something to avoid.
I can not understand why. Someone please tell me. I have always included it in my letterheads.
 
Why do you always include it so? Not everybody needs to know and those who do can be told on an ad-hoc basis.
 
Consumer affairs did a spot check on my web site. They bought something by CC and retrurned it a few days later. I got a list of a few things to correct and one was to declare my vat no on the web site. I argued it wasn't safe to do this on the net as anyone could use it. It is now on the receipt they get, not on the main site.

I wouldn't put it on my letterheads, only receipts or ivoices


Why? Another thread suggests that including your VAT number is not mandatory and, in fact, might be something to avoid.