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Toolkit of resources associated with the 10 steps taken by effective local partnerships.
The Business and Planning Act received Royal Assent on 22 July 2020. This guidance should be read alongside a number of the planning and licensing measures in the Act.
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
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
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.
Guidance about how HMRC supports large businesses to help them pay the right amount of tax.
Resources for businesses.
Standardisation explained.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
What to do when you are leaving, or have left, Crown service or ministerial office, and you're starting another role.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
Businesses can partner with a local authority for advice on how to comply with trading standards, environmental health and fire safety legislation.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Guidance to help businesses and organisations improve online security and protect against cyber threats.
An initiative for companies committed to integrating 10 corporate responsibility principles in their business operations and strategies.
A robust, credible and consistent set of criteria that all business sector roadmaps should meet to ensure they can effectively reduce emissions.
Guidance from DCMS on how museums, galleries and other public buildings can prepare for an emergency or disaster.
This collection brings together all documents relating to Treasury advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
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