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Understand the approach HMRC uses to work with large business customers.
Find information on a tax avoidance arrangement used to avoid tax and National Insurance contributions by selling future business revenues to a trust.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
You must keep records of your business income and expenses for your tax…
You’ll need to keep records of: all sales and income all business expenses…
You must keep your records for at least 5 years after the 31 January…
Tell HMRC about changes to your business - a change of name, address, legal structure or business activity
How VAT works, what VAT is charged on, VAT thresholds and VAT schemes.
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
This brief explains how HMRC now approaches determining if an activity is a business activity for VAT purposes.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
This research examines how companies with fewer than 4 employees work with clients, how they derive their income, and what they do with it.
Small businesses can record income and expenses when money is actually paid rather than when they've invoiced or received
This series brings together all documents relating to Mid-sized businesses
This brief explains that businesses can choose if they want to apply the Tour Operator’s Margin Scheme (TOMS) to business to business wholesale supplies.
We deal with claims involving major points of principle relating to taxation where HMRC is a party. This list does not include: claims for the recovery of taxes, or duties cases where a taxpayer disputes liability to pay tax (these...
Supplementary guidance on how to check tax calculations or work out the trading profits of a business for Self Assessment tax return.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
If you manage one or more business taxes online, sign in to your business tax account to view your tax position and manage all your taxes from one place.
Includes Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) and VAT
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