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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…
Find out which method you should use to calculate the customs value if you’re a selling agent or branch office.
Find out what the PAYE for Agents online service is for, what you can do in the service and how to do it.
You can manage your business rates yourself. You do not have to use an agent or ask someone to help you.
When to exclude and include the buying commission in the customs value and account for import VAT if you’re an importer paying fees to your buying agent.
If you’re an agent, find out how to use a VAT margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718).
Find out what sector of businesses are covered by the Money Laundering Regulations, and which premises you'll need to register.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
VAT treatment of transactions in commodities, commodity derivatives and on terminal markets.
What you need to tell HMRC if you're a tax agent and your business is changing in some way.
Find a customs agent or fast parcel operator to help you with import and export declarations.
Find out what you should look for if you want a tax agent to interact with HMRC on your behalf.
Find out how to register to send your Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) return to HMRC if you're an agent, solicitor or organisation.
Find out how to change and remove authorisation from an agent acting on your behalf.
This guide sets out essential information for British nationals wanting to buy property in Egypt.
The process you need to follow to repay your Help to Buy: Equity Loan when you decide to sell your home.
How to access the Income Record Viewer and use the digital handshake if you’re an agent to check your clients pay and tax details, employment history and tax codes.
Information on legal requirements and advice for British nationals buying property in France.
How VAT affects travel agents and tour operators.
Find out what roles and access you can give your staff in your HMRC online services for agents account and your agent services account.
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