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Check if your business can get help from the Growth Support Service, and how to apply.
Use this service to ask the HMRC Mid-sized Business Customer Support Team for help if you're a mid-sized business with a UK turnover above £10 million or at least 20 employees.
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
Verify the business status of overseas businesses established outside the UK using form VAT66A.
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
Find out what records you must keep and how to keep them if you're registered for VAT.
What action you need to take regarding data protection and data flows with the EU/EEA.
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
You can claim money back if you think you've paid too much for your business rates - how you can compare what your paying to what similar properties are paying, who you should contact to claim
Find out how to determine the place of supply of your services and how to deal with supplies of services which you receive from outside the UK.
Find out if you’re eligible for delinked payments, how they’re calculated and when you’ll receive them.
This series brings together all documents relating to business expenses and hospitality received for DECC's Permanent Secretary and Directors General.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Get a refund or interest if your company pays too much Corporation Tax or pays it early
If your business is registered for VAT in the UK, find out when you can, or need to, account for import VAT on your VAT Return (also called postponed VAT accounting).
Find out what to do with your payroll and PAYE reference numbers if your business changes but does not cease to trade.
How to get Inheritance Tax relief on business assets in an estate, what qualifies, giving away business property or assets
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