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Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
Find out which items you can or cannot claim a VAT refund for under the DIY Housebuilders' Scheme.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Decision for applicant Frederica Pulsford against registration number 14105183, applicant successful.
Find out the VAT liability for supplying ships, trains, aircraft and associated services in the UK.
Find out about the reverse charge for supplies of services reported within the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).
Descriptions of team capabilities on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
Learn how to identify misleading invoices and what you should do if you receive one.
CMA finds Adobe’s deal to acquire Figma could mean less choice for designers of digital apps, websites and other products.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer delivers keynote speech at the GREAT Futures event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Find out what trade barriers are and how they may affect you when exporting goods or services.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find out which country’s VAT rules to use when supplying services abroad.
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