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Accounting for VAT using retail schemes if you're a VAT-registered business and you cannot account for VAT using normal accounting.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
Retailers can calculate the VAT they have to record in their account per day or week instead of for each sale
How to label spirit drinks that you plan to sell in the UK.
Find out about partial exemption and the methods and calculations to use to see how much input tax you can recover.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
How to work out your writing down allowances. Work out main rate pools, special rate pools, single asset pools, small pools allowance, long life assets, short life assets
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
How to account for VAT if you buy in and resell travel facilities as a principal or undisclosed agent.
Find out about the Direct Calculation VAT Retail Schemes 1 and 2, how they work and what records you must keep.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Find out the general rules for the Apportionment Retail Schemes (1 and 2), how the scheme works, records you must keep and how to work out your VAT.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Find out the scale rate expenses for accommodation and subsistence paid to employees who travel outside of the UK.
Find out when you can zero rate books and other forms of printed matter.
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