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How you start a limited company.
How to raise funds effectively and legally, protecting the public’s trust and confidence in your charity’s work.
How to make a will: making sure it's valid, using a solicitor and changing it when your circumstances change
What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
Investigates whether the relative self-esteem of spouses can lead to within-household competition for inputs and affect economic gender inequality in the home.
How to challenge a probate application (‘enter a caveat’) if there’s a dispute about a will. What to do if your probate application is challenged.
How to make export declarations and get goods through the UK border
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it's processed.
How to prepare a Company Tax Return for your limited company or unincorporated association - deadlines, corrections and penalties
Download the forms and guidance to make and register a lasting power of attorney (LPA).
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
If you're 18 or over, use these forms to put your new name on public record by ‘enrolling’ your deed poll at the Royal Courts of Justice. Includes guidance.
How to make a lasting power of attorney (LPA): starting an application online, choosing an attorney, certifying a copy, changing an LPA.
How to apply to the Court of Protection to make a will for someone who is not able to make one themselves, what forms to use, how much it costs and how the court decides
Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling
How to bring goods into the UK from any country, including how much tax and duty you’ll need to pay and whether you need to get a licence or certificate.
Self Assessment tax returns - deadlines, who must send a tax return, penalties, corrections and returns for someone who has died.
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