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Guidance from the Certification Officer (CO).
Find out how to apply for authority to give an employee foreign tax credit relief if you're a UK employer and you send an employee to work abroad.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
Guidance on making a disclosure protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, (whistleblowing) to the Certification Officer
How to remove an overseas entity's registration from the Register of Overseas Entities.
How to check that a laboratory is allowed to buy ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
Apply for an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate, to study certain subjects in the UK.
What you must do to be a qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) and what you must report.
This is advice for UK sponsors of workers and temporary workers affected by coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Certification Officer (CO) and her team ensure that trade unions and employers’ associations carry out their statutory duties. Certification Officer works with the Department for Business and Trade .
Applications received to amend the specification of a patent under sections 27 and 75 before the court and the Office.
Find out what steps you need to take before you calculate how much you can claim for furloughed and flexibly furloughed employees.
Be aware of misleading invoices offering services to help protect your IP rights in return for a fee.
How to protect your company from scams and fraud and how to report it.
Form COP DLD: Deprivation of liberty Certificate of service non service Certificate of notification non notification.
Apply for a certificate to confirm that you only need to pay UK National Insurance contributions if you're a self-employed individual working temporarily in an EU country, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
Application form ID2: certificate of identity for a corporate body.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
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