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Official Government Buying Standards (GBS) for food and catering services
VAT and other taxes on shopping and services, including tax-free shopping, energy-saving equipment and mobility aids.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
Sainsbury’s and Asda agree to address more than 30 anti-competitive land agreements which prevent rivals opening nearby
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Morrisons and Marks and Spencer are the latest retailers to agree to address 65 anti-competitive land agreements which prevent rivals opening nearby
Give information to consumers when selling food that is loose or hasn't been prepacked by another producer.
Guidance on the CMA’s procedure for dealing with requests to carry out the Test in Schedule 4 to the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
A register of agreements relating to exclusion orders made by powers under paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to The Competition Act 1998.
A new agreement for procuring food and drink has been announced by the Crown Commercial Service.
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