Rent it depends on what you find, equiptment stuff in uk is generally much cheaper, although exchange rate the last couple of weeks seems to be not in our favour if your changing euro to pounds, ellisons, salons direct, sally hair and beauty have good prices on equiptment and furniture, ebay is also good, i have a few companies i used to use for bed rolls, salon hygiene etc, if you need a list of companies let me know, or you can see when the next trade fair is and go, you can get all your contacts, and great deals, vat free etc, its not like here where you need a timologio and prove to the tax where you got stuff, you can get cheap, second hand or clearance stuff, the reason for the reciept isnt so you can avoid getting a fine, in uk it helps you write it off against your taxes and get tax relief for items :0) also you dont get vat registered until you earn a certain ammount, it was 54,000 per annum when i had shop, so in the first year is good to get you off your feet, and you dont pay a fixed teve, its based on how much you earn, get a good accountant, you can write off clothes, coffee, petrol when using it for buisiness purposes, shoes, cleaning products, anything that you may use in store