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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 about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
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.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
How an obliged entity can make a report if there’s a material discrepancy between the information it holds about a person with significant control (PSC) or registrable beneficial owner of an overseas entity, and the information on the Companies House...
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 about changes to the Business Investment Relief rules from 6 April 2017.
When HMRC will issue a joint and several liability notice to individuals who have been involved with companies which have become insolvent and have a tax liability with HMRC.
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.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
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:...
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
Business customers can apply to access our electronic services through the portal or Business Gateway.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
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