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Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Find out how the scheme works, including issuing shares and raising money, and how to submit your compliance statement.
Find out about the Direct Calculation VAT Retail Schemes 1 and 2, how they work and what records you must keep.
Find out the general rules for the Apportionment Retail Schemes (1 and 2), how the scheme works, records you must keep and how to work out your VAT.
How to charge or reclaim VAT if you offer your customers payments in advance, instalments, deposits, or credit sales.
How customers and their suppliers must treat VAT if they're using self-billing arrangements.
Rules on consumer and business sales contracts under the Unfair Contract Terms Act and Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations
Find out how the VAT Cash Accounting Scheme works and the conditions you must meet if you want to use it.
Find out about the VAT domestic reverse charge procedure which applies to the buying and selling of certain goods and services.
How sellers deal with VAT for goods from overseas that they sell direct to customers in the UK.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
Find out who can use, and how to apply to join the Agricultural Flat Rate Scheme.
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.
Relief from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you buy new business assets with the proceeds from selling old ones, check if you're eligible, how to claim
Guide for overseas investors on how to access NHS procurement channels.
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