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Check if you can get a reduction in your business rates bill with business rates relief and find out how to apply.
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You can get small business rate relief if: your property’s rateable value…
You could qualify for retail, hospitality and leisure relief if your…
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You could get charitable rate relief if your property is mainly used for…
You could get local newspaper relief if your property is used as office…
If you get empty property relief, you do not have to pay business rates on…
You might get improvement relief if you make certain improvements to your…
Transitional relief limits how much your bill can change each year as a…
You can get supporting small business relief if both of the following…
Councils can reduce or cancel your business rates bill with hardship…
If you’re starting up or relocating a business to an enterprise zone you…
A freeport is an area in which businesses are given a range of benefits to…
You can get heat networks relief if your property is only used or mainly…
Certain properties are exempt from business rates. You may not have to pay…
Local councils are responsible for sending business rates bills,…
Decide which activities are business or non-business for VAT purposes if you're a local authority or other public body.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Findings of the Small Business Survey 2021 on the performance of businesses with no employees
Reclaim VAT you've paid on goods and services bought in the UK to use in your business if you’re registered as a business outside the UK.
Findings of the Small Business Survey 2022 on the performance of businesses with no employees.
How the Valuation Office Agency calculates your rateable value for business rates.
How to claim a VAT refund in the UK if you're established outside the UK.
Statement by Ambassador Archie Young at the UN General Assembly for the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties - who has to pay, how your rates are calculated, getting a revaluation, what to do if your premises change.
Apply to get an EORI number to move goods between Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man, and other countries.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Findings of the Small Business Survey 2020 on the performance of businesses with no employees
Guidance on the meaning of business for VAT purposes and how it applies in the operation of the tax
When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
What to do if you're visiting the UK on business - check if you’re eligible, if you need a visa, what visa to apply for, and what to do before you visit.
Findings of the Small Business Survey 2019 on the performance of businesses with no employees.
Findings of the Small Business Survey 2018 on the performance of small and medium-sized businesses with no employees.
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