While the MTA maintains the reputation of the industry at an excellent standard, there are businesses who ruin the industry for honest hard workers.
These businesses are often run from home using unskilled labour and avoid paying tax on the majority of the work they carry out.
Known as 'backyarders', these businesses rob legitimate traders of an income, and they reflect poorly on the rest of the trade, especially when a customer suffers at the hands of a backyarder and blames the entire industry for their loss.
MTA is doing something about it. We have several avenues which we can use to bring backyarders to the attention of the authorities.
MTA gladly accepts information on any backyard traders your business may know about and all enquiries are treated confidentially. We can only solve this problem as a team, and we require your information.
