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You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.
You need to keep records if you have to send HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)…
You must keep records about your business income and costs for longer if…
Income from employment You should keep documents about your pay and tax,…
You should keep all: bank or building society statements and passbooks…
You should keep details of: the dates when you let out your property all…
You may have to pay Capital Gains Tax if you sell (or ‘dispose of’)…
You should keep: evidence of income you’ve earned from overseas, like…
Use the online service to get a UK document legalised.
You can get certain official UK documents ‘legalised’ by submitting them…
Apply online for a paper-based apostille or an e-Apostille. To apply,…
Contact the Legalisation Office if you have: a question about how the…
Claim relief on import duty and VAT when importing miscellaneous documents and related articles into the UK.
Form DL: list of documents that accompany a first registration application.
Find out how you could be made liable for the unpaid VAT of another VAT-registered business when you buy or sell specified goods.
A contract is an agreement between employee and employer setting out implied and explicit terms and conditions - written statement of particulars, collective agreements
How to order certified copies of certificates and documents held on the Companies House register.
Forms AP1, FR1 and DS2: guidance on when evidence of identity must be lodged in support of an application for registration.
Use form C88 (status) as proof of authorisation to import or export for the country of destination.
Change your protocol, update your authorisation, report safety issues, submit safety updates and complete your end-of-trial study report.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
How Standard Shipping Notes, Dangerous Goods Notes and Export Cargo Shipping Instructions work, and where you can get them from.
Get your goods cleared by the National Clearance Hub when moving goods into, out of, or through the UK.
Find a list of codes for the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared (for example, licences and certificates) in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5A).
Guidance for organisations involved in any aspect of the pharmaceutical lifecycle or GLP studies regulated by MHRA, covering the approval of paper documents when working from home
(Part 3 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984/Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004)
Rules outlining the form, manner of delivery and method of authentication for documents delivered to Companies House in electronic or paper format.
Use form C88 to allow the exportation and importation of goods.
Guidance for completing forms ID1: Certificate of identity for a private individual, and ID2: Certificate of identity for a body corporate.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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