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Get on the electoral register so you can vote in elections and referendums.
How to register for Self Assessment if you need to send a tax return or want to make voluntary Class 2 National Insurance payments.
Sign in or set up a personal or business tax account, Self Assessment, Corporation Tax, PAYE for employers, VAT and other services.
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Find a register office (registry office) - register and find records of births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths, and order certificates
Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates
Getting on the electoral register, what happens if you do not register to vote, registering in more than one place, how to opt out of the 'open register', registering anonymously and how to view the electoral register
Registering land or property in England - first time registration, transfer of ownership, changing your details on the register, where to register in Scotland or Northern Ireland
How to register your medical devices with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for the markets in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
How to register for VAT, change your details, cancel your registration, register for VAT in EU countries.
Guidance for potential and existing custodians of registers, as well as service teams across government.
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 .
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
RSH guidance and forms for de/registering as a provider of social housing, notifying the regulator, and miscellaneous approvals
Register trainee teachers (Register) is the service that replaced the Database of trainee teachers and providers (DTTP) in 2022.
Submit HM Land Registry applications in the portal, reducing errors and requisitions.
Contact information for the General Register Office
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
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.
Find out how to become the custodian of a register.
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