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What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
You must provide certain information if you’re selling goods or services…
As well as the rules for distance selling, there are extra rules for…
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
Find out if you need to pay VAT if you sell goods using an online marketplace or direct to customers in the UK.
Ways to sell to the public sector - including the Digital Marketplace, Contracts Finder
Find out your VAT obligations if you use an online marketplace to sell goods in the UK.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company
Get a customs declaration form to take goods with you to sell outside the EU
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
If you sell horses or ponies in the UK, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718).
Find out about VAT and distance selling goods from the EU to customers in Northern Ireland if you're a business abroad.
What you need to do to supply, distribute and sell wood for use in domestic heating appliances in England.
Find out which method you should use to calculate the customs value if you’re a selling agent or branch office.
Work out Private Residence Relief when you sell your home, whether you need to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and what proportion of your gain you pay tax on
What you need to do if you sell or store tobacco products in the UK.
Find out if you need to pay tax on income from goods or services traded online.
If you sell second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).
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