We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Find out if you need to pay VAT when you sell goods direct to customers in the UK, without the involvement of an online marketplace.
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:...
We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.
Find out about the Industry Security Assurance Centre (ISAC) and its associated responsibilities.
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.
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.
Even the best-run business can face unexpected challenges and solvency issues. It's important you recognise the signs and understand your duties as a director.
The guide to VAT rules and procedures.
How to register a group of companies, company divisions, joint business ventures and business units for VAT and what to do if they change after registration.
Find out if you need to apply for the fit and proper test and how to do this so that HMRC can register your business.
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.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
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
Business plans - download free templates and get help writing a business plan
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Guidance and support available to businesses in England.
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).