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What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
When you sell your business, you have legal responsibilities to staff you…
Your responsibilities when selling a partnership depend on whether you’re…
Your responsibilities will be different, depending on whether: you’re…
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
Find out if you need to pay VAT if you sell goods using an online marketplace or direct to customers in the UK.
Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company
Find out your VAT obligations if you use an online marketplace to sell goods in the UK.
Ways to sell to the public sector - including the Digital Marketplace, Contracts Finder
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
Practical advice, information and useful links for UK businesses looking to access the US market by selling online.
A guide to selling a home in England and Wales.
Get a customs declaration form to take goods with you to sell outside the EU
Capital Gains Tax when you sell a property that's not your home: work out your gain and pay your tax on buy-to-let, business, agricultural and inherited properties
Guidance for suppliers of cloud technology, digital outcomes, user research studios and user research participants.
Find out if you need to pay tax on income from goods or services traded online.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
Work out Private Residence Relief when you sell your home, whether you need to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and what proportion of your gain you pay tax on
What you need to do to supply, distribute and sell wood for use in domestic heating appliances in England.
What you need to do if you sell or store tobacco products in the UK.
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