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How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Register as a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
Find out how to apply to operate as an excise warehousekeeper and how to make changes or cancel your authorisation.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Find out who can be authorised to store, process or produce excise goods in a UK Freeport customs site and how to apply to do so.
Find information on a tax avoidance arrangement used to avoid tax and National Insurance contributions by selling future business revenues to a trust.
What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
How an obliged entity can make a report if there’s a material discrepancy between the information it holds about a person with significant control (PSC) or registrable beneficial owner of an overseas entity, and the information on the Companies House...
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Information on how to apply for approval to use raw tobacco in a controlled activity.
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