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How to prepare if you trade and move goods in and out of Northern Ireland.
FCDO travel advice for Jamaica. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
How to use the Post Office passport Check and Send service for passport applications and renewals, what it costs, where you can use the service.
How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes.
Apply for a transit visa if you stop at a UK airport on your way to another destination - types of visas, cost, documents, how to apply
Find out what an HMRC officer will do when they visit your business and what records they’ll ask to see.
VAT and other taxes on shopping and services, including tax-free shopping, energy-saving equipment and mobility aids.
How transit can help you move goods through customs and where you can use transit to move goods to.
FCDO travel advice for Germany. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Honduras. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
This guidance covers the role that the police play in the DBS checking process.
This collection contains immigration staff guidance on making decisions about identity checks.
A checklist for artists, specialists, museum professionals, exhibitors or businesses working or touring in an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
If your business is registered for VAT in the UK, find out when you can, or need to, account for import VAT on your VAT Return (also called postponed VAT accounting).
Find out if VAT is due when you sell, send or transfer goods from Great Britain to outside the UK or from Northern Ireland to outside the UK and EU.
FCDO travel advice for Ecuador. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Guidance on the document checks that air, rail and sea carriers must make, and how they are charged for passengers without appropriate travel documents.
A list of Responsible Organisations and their responsibilities.
You can claim a relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you are importing or presenting a decoration or award in the UK.
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