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Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
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Find out how to qualify for drawback and what you'll need to do to make a claim on duty you have already paid.
How to apply for the different simplified declarations for exports and what you need for authorisation to use them.
How to account for VAT on services when a vehicle, ship or aircraft is provided, together with a driver or crew for the transport of goods.
Find out the VAT liability for supplying ships, trains, aircraft and associated services in the UK.
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Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
Use this form for ship supplies declarations for goods from the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland destined for ships leaving Great Britain.
How to export or move fish for human consumption from the UK.
Information for companies on the import and export of controlled drugs to and from the UK.
How Standard Shipping Notes, Dangerous Goods Notes and Export Cargo Shipping Instructions work, and where you can get them from.
Find out how you can import goods with a specific authorised use and pay less duty.
Set up a Direct Debit with your bank or building society if you’ve applied for a duty deferment account.
Understand how trading conditions and insurance can limit the financial risk for freight forwarders.
How ship security is managed in the UK, and how to comply with UK regulations on ship security.
How to use the simplified declaration procedure when exporting goods from the UK.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
This guidance outlines the requirements for claiming preferential tariffs under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
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