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When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
Register as a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
How UK persons’ trading interests are protected and when authorisations must be obtained to trade with countries subject to specific extraterritorial laws.
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
If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...
Find out how to pay less tax as a charity and when to set up a subsidiary trading company.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Use form EX103 to tell HMRC about your use or intention to use premises, rooms, places, vessels, utensils or other plants if you're a private trader.
The EU Emissions Trading System Union Registry: how it works, how Kyoto units are used for compliance within the EU ETS and how to participate in carbon allowance auctions.
Personal pensions, stakeholder pensions, SIPPs
Information on trade sanctions, arms embargoes and trade restrictions, including trade controls, transit controls and restrictions on terrorist organisations.
This form is for clients and/or their partners who trade in a self-employed partnership.
Find out which stocks and shares you can purchase, make or hold in an investor's stocks and shares ISA.
Information about the Personal Injury Discount Rate review 2024.
Find out about annual tax-free allowances for property or trading income and if you qualify.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
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