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Report on research looking at the response to midata, which gives consumers access to their personal data.
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Mrs Justice Eady on 20 May 2024.
How to use a risk-based approach to carry out compulsory risk assessments of your business.
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.
How to carry out checks on your business and customers, and what records you must keep to prevent money laundering.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
This webinar looks at the information an organisation makes available to clients, or potential clients, and how the consumer's expectations can be met.
A keynote speech by Martin Coleman, Non-Executive Director and Panel Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to the Swedish Competition Authority’s Pros and Cons Conference.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Find out about exercising due diligence when making customs declarations.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
Find out the rules from 1 January 2018 if you promote or use arrangements that are meant to give someone a VAT or other indirect tax saving or a tax deferral.
Find out how to apply to operate as an excise warehousekeeper and how to make changes or cancel your authorisation.
Find out about tax avoidance schemes used by some businesses to provide tax free or tax reduced rewards to their employees.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
How to set up a public service mutual and 'spin out' of a public service organisation.
Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
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