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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
All marketing and advertising must be: an accurate description of the…
Advertising to consumers The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading…
There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…
You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…
You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
The legal requirements to advertise and promote your medicine including the Blue Guide which interprets the law in more detail.
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Guide to licensing requirements and restrictions for trade control and the export of controlled military goods, software and technology.
Anyone in Northern Ireland selling medicines to the public via a website must still comply with the requirement to apply the EU common logo.
Find information on a tax avoidance arrangement used to avoid tax and National Insurance contributions by selling future business revenues to a trust.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
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