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What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
When you sell your business, you have legal responsibilities to staff you…
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How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
The next generation of business leaders have received over £100 million worth of support from the Government backed Start Up Loan Scheme
This research shows how the dispositions of business owners shape how they think about and run their businesses.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Check what you need to do if you own a UK legal services business and are a lawyer with qualifications from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
How an obliged entity can make a report if there’s a material discrepancy between the information it holds about a person with significant control (PSC) or registrable beneficial owner of an overseas entity, and the information on the Companies House...
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
Business Asset Disposal Relief (was known as Entrepreneurs' Relief) can reduce your Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell certain business assets or shares - eligibility, deadlines, how to claim
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Register as a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
Find out about changes to the Business Investment Relief rules from 6 April 2017.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
Defines unincorporated and incorporated businesses.
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