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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
All marketing and advertising must be: an accurate description of the…
Advertising to consumers The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading…
There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…
You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…
You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…
Find out when you can zero rate books and other forms of printed matter.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
What to do if you think you've spotted a scam pretending to be from Companies House, and examples of scam emails, letters and telephone calls.
Advertisement to be used in print publications to publicise new rules for Housing Benefit.
Claim relief on import duty and VAT when importing miscellaneous documents and related articles into the UK.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Decisions made by MHRA on adverts reported to have breached the legislation on advertising medicines.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
Guidance for local NHS screening services on how to order and access printed and digital population screening leaflets.
The CMA is investigating whether Google might have abused a dominant position through its conduct in ad tech
A template designed to be used by local planning authorities when notifying interested parties of advertisement consent and minor commercial appeals
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for SQP retailers’ premises inspections.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against misleading advertising of a Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) avoidance scheme by promoter, Fiducia Wealth and Tax.
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