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This collection brings together all documents relating to Small Business Survey reports dating back to 2007 to 2008.
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.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
How to buy or acquire the assets of a dissolved company - how and when you can claim money or property, who to contact and the forms you need
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
What to do if you're visiting the UK on business - check if you’re eligible, if you need a visa, what visa to apply for, and what to do before you visit.
When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help
Find out what to do with your payroll and PAYE reference numbers if your business changes but does not cease to trade.
How to send your information to Companies House using our online services.
How to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are between £1.5 million and £20 million.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
How to apply for a discretionary grant of bona vacantia where the dissolved company cannot be restored.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
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