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When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
How to check if an ivory item you are buying or hiring has been correctly registered or certified, and how to register as a new owner.
Check if your import, export or re-export needs a permit or certificate under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
How to use Method 1 to work out the customs value of your imported goods if you're an importer or clearing agent.
Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.
Forms for housing association landlords to respond to a tenant's application to buy their property through the Right to Acquire scheme.
Find out how the VAT Capital Goods Scheme (CGS) works, the items covered by the scheme, the rules and how adjustments and disposals are affected.
How to use Method 4 to work out the customs value of your imported goods if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
Take goods temporarily out of Great Britain using ATA Carnet, Returned Goods Relief, declaration by conduct, oral declaration, Duplicate Lists.
Find out what to do if you supply goods and services that are exempt from VAT and how these affect the amount of VAT you can reclaim on your purchases.
If you make supplies of second hand goods, works of art or antiques and collectors items you can choose to use this simplified margin scheme to account for VAT.
What you need to do if you sell or store tobacco products in the UK.
If you provide services to a seller or buyer in the UK, find out about the auctioneers' VAT margin scheme and how to account for VAT (VAT notice 718/2).
Claim capital allowances so your business pays less tax when you buy assets - equipment, fixtures, business cars, plant and machinery, annual investment allowance, first year allowances.
Things to consider when buying and using products.
What you need to do to export or move animal bones, protein and other by-products.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Procurement options available from the Crown Commercial Service for the public sector.
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