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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
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
The Business List contains three separate sub-lists: business financial services regulatory and pensions business. Business We deal with a wide range business disputes, often with an international dimension. Frequently these concern a business structure (company, LLP, LP, partnership etc) including:...
Business plans - download free templates and get help writing a business plan
Tools and guidance for businesses
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
We are the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. DBT is a ministerial department, supported by 19 agencies and public bodies .
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
Guidance for UK companies on winning business from international aid and development projects.
The Business Basics Programme was designed to test innovative ways of encouraging small and medium sized enterprises to adopt existing technologies and management practices to improve their productivity.
Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties - who has to pay, how your rates are calculated, getting a revaluation, what to do if your premises change.
Running a business from home - insurance, business rates, expenses, tax allowances
We incorporate and dissolve limited companies. We register company information and make it available to the public. Companies House is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade .
This collection brings together all documents relating to Small Business Survey reports dating back to 2007 to 2008.
Steps to take if you want to provide a service or set up a business in the UK.
Resources for businesses.
This series brings together all documents relating to Mid-sized businesses
Centralised guidance for SMEs and departments on government’s commitment to support start-ups and small businesses via government procurement, and commit to paying them on time.
How companies can help developing countries through the development and uptake of inclusive business models.
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