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When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
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How customers and their suppliers must treat VAT if they're using self-billing arrangements.
Find out how the VAT Cash Accounting Scheme works and the conditions you must meet if you want to use it.
Invoicing and taking payment from customers, what invoices must include, VAT invoices, sole trader invoices, limited company invoices, payment options, charging for late payment, chargebacks
Outcome of the government’s review of society lottery sales and prize limits, which were increased in July 2020
How to charge or reclaim VAT if you offer your customers payments in advance, instalments, deposits, or credit sales.
Find out how venture capital schemes work, who can apply and what tax reliefs are available for your investors.
How to follow the law if you sell alcohol at a charity event, including when you need to pay tax.
If you sell second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).
Government to introduce historic new law to protect future generations of young people from the harms of smoking.
Find out what a charity is, how VAT affects charities, how to treat a charity's income for VAT and what VAT reliefs a charity can get on what it buys.
How to create invoices for transactions in foreign currencies and convert them into pound sterling when you account for VAT.
On the eve of New Year reforms for the wine industry, Environment Secretary Steve Barclay welcomes the scrapping of outdated rules inherited from the EU.
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