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Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Find out what to do if an agency or umbrella company offers to reduce your tax liability and increase your take home pay.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Find out when transactions involving land and buildings are exempt from VAT.
Find out what makes a person an enabler of tax avoidance, and what to do about legally privileged communications.
How VAT applies if you give or get sponsorship.
Set up a Payroll Giving scheme for your employees using PAYE - when to make deductions, costs of running the scheme, which charities are eligible and what they must do when they get the donation
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
The guide to VAT rules and procedures.
Tax and reporting rules for employers whose employees receive third-party awards or incentives
Find out what the technical terms used in the scheme information for the SFI 2023 offer mean.
How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
This note is part of the statutory guidance under s215 of the HRA 2008 (from 1 April 2024)
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.
How we work with buyers and suppliers to improve the way technology is bought across government and the public sector.
Find information on tax avoidance arrangements seeking to avoid Corporation Tax, Income Tax and National Insurance contributions by using unfunded pension arrangements.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
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