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Register as a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
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.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
When you sell your business, you have legal responsibilities to staff you…
Your responsibilities when selling a partnership depend on whether you’re…
Your responsibilities will be different, depending on whether: you’re…
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...
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Check what you need to do if you own a UK legal services business and are a lawyer with qualifications from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
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 you can register for VAT under the VAT registration scheme for racehorse owners.
Find out about the independent General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) Advisory Panel opinion on a tax avoidance arrangement that rewarded a director through a remuneration trust.
Businessman fraudulently applied for a Covid Bounce Back Loan and broke company law when applying to have his business struck off
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
This guidance outlines the obligations that the leaseholder protections in the Act place onto building owners, right-to-manage companies, resident management companies and named managers.
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