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You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.
Information for entertainers and musicians, from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, visiting the UK for performance and work.
A checklist for musical artists and accompanying staff working, performing or touring in an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Apply to the Gambling Commission for a personal gambling licence or a gambling operating licence if you run or manage a gambling business. The Gambling Commission regulates arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, gaming machine providers, gambling software providers, lottery operators, external...
Find out if you should pay Gaming Duty, how to register and how to pay.
A checklist for performing artists, creatives, management and production staff in the performing arts touring in an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Machine Games Duty (MGD): what you pay it on, how to register, filing your return and changing your details.
Guidance and forms covering gambling duties. Including, Bingo, Gaming, Lottery and Machine Games Duty, general betting duty and payments.
Find out about Gaming Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
Find out about Machine Games Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
Log in to your HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) online account and file your General Betting Duty, Pool Betting Duty or Remote Gaming Duty returns
Apply for a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa to work in the UK in the creative industry - eligibility, extend, bring your family.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for business properties - apply, exemptions, displaying a certificate, fines and penalties
Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.
People at risk of gambling-related harm will be better protected under government plans to update betting rules for the digital age.
Check if you need a UK visa, how to apply, sign in, manage your application, biometric residence permits (BRPs), share codes
You need a club gaming permit if you run a members' club or a miners' welfare institute
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