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The rules you must follow to ensure sheep and goats, including those kept as pets, can be traced to prevent and contain disease.
Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.
You need to keep records if you have to send HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)…
You must keep records about your business income and costs for longer if…
Income from employment You should keep documents about your pay and tax,…
You should keep all: bank or building society statements and passbooks…
You should keep details of: the dates when you let out your property all…
You may have to pay Capital Gains Tax if you sell (or ‘dispose of’)…
You should keep: evidence of income you’ve earned from overseas, like…
The rules and processes cattle keepers must follow to ensure cattle can be traced at all times.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy
How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
The guide will support infrastructure owners and operators, emergency responders, industry groups, regulators, and government departments.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.
The rules you must follow to ensure pigs can be traced to prevent and contain disease.
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.
Find out what records you must keep and how to keep them if you're registered for VAT.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Guide to the sponsorship documents that businesses and educational institutions must keep.
Find out what livestock records Countryside Stewardship agreement holders need to keep.
It will no longer be possible to keep primates as household pets in environments that fail to provide for their needs
How to get a licence to keep animals for exhibition, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
Advice on staying well in cold weather, covering issues such as financial help, healthy lifestyle, flu vaccinations and heating.
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