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How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
This guidance is an introduction to the Open Document Format (ODF) standard and how you can select ODF-compliant solutions.
Information about how to get ESFA funding for post-16 education and training.
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Information on trade sanctions, arms embargoes and trade restrictions, including trade controls, transit controls and restrictions on terrorist organisations.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
Types of groups, creating and editing groups.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to use Union Transit to move non-EU goods within the UK or EU, and to move goods to or from the special territories.
Guidance on the use of the sensitive words accreditation, accredit, accredited and accrediting, in a company, Limited Liability Partnership or business name.
We incorporate and dissolve limited companies. We register company information and make it available to the public. Companies House is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade .
When to apply the off-payroll working rules (IR35) if you receive services from a worker through their intermediary.
This webpage provides a list of organisations authorised under UK legislation to conduct tonnage measurement and issue certification on UK registered vessels.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) guidance on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector.
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