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Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
Find out if you need to use the UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking on products you manufacture or handle.
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches to regulation we are taking during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
How product specific rules are used to identify the country of origin when importing or exporting between the UK and EU.
A guide to human behaviour in the shipping industry.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Assessment framework specification files for software suppliers developing management information systems (MIS).
Find out how the VAT Capital Goods Scheme (CGS) works, the items covered by the scheme, the rules and how adjustments and disposals are affected.
SEPs are of growing importance to the UK economy. The IPO is committed to ensuring the current SEPs framework functions effectively to encourage innovation and promote competition.
Upper Tribunal tax and Chancery decision of Mr Justice Adam Johnson and Judge Thomas Scott on 26 March 2024
Global Britain in a Competitive Age, the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, describes the government’s vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade and the action we will take to 2025.
An overview of the changes made to the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011 that came into force on 1 January 2021.
Information about seafarer working and living rights - working conditions, conditions of employment, safe working practices, living conditions, dangerous cargo, health and medical care, maritime labour convention, human element
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