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Use this form to appoint or change a representative for a trade mark owner or update current representative details.

Use the online service or the postal form to apply to register as an excise duty representative or a Freeport duty representative for excise goods.

• Updated: 30 January 2023

Apply to come to the UK as a representative of a news agency, newspaper or news agency and you’re from outside the EEA and Switzerland - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, extend and switch.

• Overview

  You can apply as a representative of an overseas business if you’re an…

• Eligibility

  To be eligible for this visa you must: have enough money to support…

• Knowledge of English

  You may need to prove your knowledge of the English language when you…

• Documents you must provide

  When you apply you’ll need to provide: a current passport or other valid…

• Apply from outside the UK

  Read the Representative of an Overseas Business guidance before you apply.…

• Your partner and children

  Your family members (‘dependants’) can come with you when you come to the…

• Extend your visa

  You can apply to extend your stay in the UK under a Representative of an…

• Using a solicitor or an agent

  You can use a solicitor or other agent to help with your application or…

• Switch to this visa

  You might be able to apply to change (‘switch’) to a Representative of an…

Use this form to appoint or change a representative for an opponent or cancellation applicant.

Use this 'notice of change' to tell a court that the legal representative in a case has changed.

Use the online service to register a deceased person's estate if you’re an executor, administrator or personal representative.

• Updated: 6 April 2024

Tell HMRC about a change to the representative member of a VAT group using the VAT56 form.

You can appoint a tax representative to meet your obligations for Aggregates Levy if you're not resident in the UK.

Appoint someone in the UK to act as your Machine Games Duty overseas representative using form MGD4.

You may be able to apply for indefinite leave to remain if you are a representative of an overseas business or a representative of an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation.…

• Updated: 6 April 2022

Follow this guidance when claiming for work undertaken under the Prohibition of Cross-Examination In Person Qualified Legal Representative (QLR) Scheme.

• Updated: 30 April 2024

Use the postal form CCL1TR to appoint a UK tax representative for Climate Change Levy if your business is not based in the UK.

The notes from meetings between the Pubs Code Adjudicator and the Tenant Representative Groups Forum.…

• Updated: 13 October 2022

Use form HM9 to apply to be a UK tax representative and become authorised to account for duty on excise goods sold to private individuals in Northern Ireland.

• Updated: 10 February 2023

Use this form to say who you want to represent you in a First-tier Tax Tribunal. Your representative will deal with all correspondence and can go to a hearing with you to speak on your behalf.

Tell HMRC if you're a UK tax representative who needs to declare the UK duty payable on goods imported under your approval.

Use form OS AP05 to appoint a permanent representative in respect of a UK establishment of an overseas company.

Appoint a UK tax representative if you're distance selling into Northern Ireland using form VAT1TR.

Use form R105 (AIF2) to declare you hold shares as a personal representative of a deceased person, who solely owned the investment and was not a resident in the UK.

You have the right to speak for yourself in court without a solicitor or legal professional - where to get help with papers and procedures