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How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
When you sell your business, you have legal responsibilities to staff you…
Your responsibilities when selling a partnership depend on whether you’re…
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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
When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
This research shows how the dispositions of business owners shape how they think about and run their businesses.
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
How to carry out checks on your business and customers, and what records you must keep to prevent money laundering.
Our use of data from the Companies House business owner survey.
Register as a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
Find out if you need to apply for the fit and proper test and how to do this so that HMRC can register your business.
How an obliged entity can make a report if there’s a material discrepancy between the information it holds about a person with significant control (PSC) or registrable beneficial owner of an overseas entity, and the information on the Companies House...
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Running a business from home - insurance, business rates, expenses, tax allowances
Find out about changes to the Business Investment Relief rules from 6 April 2017.
Requirements for excise goods held in duty suspension in a warehouse by an authorised warehousekeeper, registered owner, duty representative or registered consignor in the UK.
What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Find information on a tax avoidance arrangement used to avoid tax and National Insurance contributions by selling future business revenues to a trust.
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