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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
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
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Decide which activities are business or non-business for VAT purposes if you're a local authority or other public body.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
Find out which country’s VAT rules to use when supplying services abroad.
Learn about the services we offer to businesses that enable you to check SIA licences, submit licence applications and pay the licence application fee.
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
Includes moving goods in the EU and commodity codes
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company
Tell HMRC if you've stopped being self-employed, or you're ending or leaving a business partnership - responsibilities, tax returns, letting any employees know.
Information on how UK companies can control risks when doing business in Brazil.
Includes self-employment and starting a business
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