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Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Find out about the Direct Calculation VAT Retail Schemes 1 and 2, how they work and what records you must keep.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Mr Justice Kerr on 23 May 2024.
Find out how to qualify for drawback and what you'll need to do to make a claim on duty you have already paid.
Retailers can calculate the VAT they have to record in their account per day or week instead of for each sale
Trading hours for retailers, restrictions on Sunday opening and public holiday opening in England, Wales and Scotland
VAT and other taxes on shopping and services, including tax-free shopping, energy-saving equipment and mobility aids.
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for SQP retailers’ premises inspections.
Accounting for VAT using retail schemes if you're a VAT-registered business and you cannot account for VAT using normal accounting.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Find out what you need to do and how to apply to operate a customs warehouse when importing to the UK.
Find out what you need to do when importing goods from outside the UK to a customs warehouse.
How to get the VAT back on goods you buy in Northern Ireland from shops that offer tax-free shopping (VAT Notice 704/1).
We have introduced a business rates holiday for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
Apply for authorisation of premises for the retail supply of POM-VPS and NFA-VPS veterinary medicines by suitably qualified persons (SQPs).
Find out when goods can be zero-rated if they’re sold to overseas visitors for personal use by a VAT-registered business in Northern Ireland (VAT Notice 704).
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
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