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The guide to VAT rules and procedures.
Find out how the scheme works, including issuing shares and raising money, and how to submit your compliance statement.
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
How to decide what your charity’s purposes are and write them in the ‘objects’ clause of your governing document.
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
How to tax employee expenses for entertaining clients.
Find out what it means to be a charity and what to do if setting up a charity is the right option for you.
Guidance on the use of the sensitive words accreditation, accredit, accredited and accrediting, in a company, Limited Liability Partnership or business name.
Guidance for UK companies on winning business from international aid and development projects.
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
What happens when you opt to tax (charge VAT on) land and buildings, when you need permission and when to notify HMRC about your decision.
Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery decision of Judge Raghavan and Judge Brannan on 07 August 2023
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
These terms of reference outline the government's review on mission-led businesses and their role in the UK's growing social economy.
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