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How to find export opportunities and overseas customers for your business on great.gov.uk: get help selling online overseas, get help from a trade specialist.
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
Find out if you’re a money service business and need to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
An initiative for companies committed to integrating 10 corporate responsibility principles in their business operations and strategies.
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
A research paper from OFCOM
Use this form to register (incorporate) a private or public company. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
Use Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) form CIS305 to register your company as a subcontractor, or apply for gross payment status at the same time.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
How to register a group of companies, company divisions, joint business ventures and business units for VAT and what to do if they change after registration.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
Sign in or set up a personal or business tax account, Self Assessment, Corporation Tax, PAYE for employers, VAT and other services.
How to manage tell HMRC your company is dormant for Corporation Tax if you have stopped trading or have never traded.
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
Find out if you need to pay VAT when you sell goods to customers in the UK using an online marketplace.
This is the official one-stop shop for businesses on child online safety.
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
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