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Bring photo ID to vote Check what photo ID you'll need to vote in person in the General Election on 4 July.
What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
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…
Your responsibilities will be different, depending on whether: you’re…
Guidance for suppliers of cloud technology, digital outcomes, user research studios and user research participants.
Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company
A guide to selling a home in England and Wales.
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
Find out if you need to pay VAT if you sell goods using an online marketplace or direct to customers in the UK.
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
If you sell second-hand houseboats or caravans in the UK, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718).
Capital Gains Tax when you sell a property that's not your home: work out your gain and pay your tax on buy-to-let, business, agricultural and inherited properties
Guidance on the many ways for suppliers to work with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the science inside UK defence and security.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
If you’re an agent, find out how to use a VAT margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718).
Find out your VAT obligations if you use an online marketplace to sell goods in the UK.
When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
How sellers deal with VAT for goods from overseas that they sell direct to customers in the UK.
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