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Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
You can register your trade mark to protect your brand, for example the…
Before you apply for a trade mark you need to: decide which general…
To apply you’ll need: details of what you want to register, for example…
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will examine your application and…
Your trade mark will be registered around 10 weeks (2 months, plus 2…
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
How consumers can reduce their energy costs by getting a group deal
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out which stocks and shares you can purchase, make or hold in an investor's stocks and shares ISA.
Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.
This publication details when a company is relieved from SD on purchase of own shares and how to claim repayment of that already paid.
How to buy intellectual property that belonged to a dissolved company and now belongs to the Crown.
If you provide services to a seller or buyer in the UK, find out about the auctioneers' VAT margin scheme and how to account for VAT (VAT notice 718/2).
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Guide for overseas investors on how to access NHS procurement channels.
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.
How to find digital outcome, specialist and user research services on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
Help to Buy: Equity Loan is now closed and can no longer be advertised.
The key aim of the Offtaker of Last Resort is to encourage competition in the Power Purchase Agreement market.
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