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Accounting for VAT using retail schemes if you're a VAT-registered business and you cannot account for VAT using normal accounting.
Information on using the app to apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) to come to the UK.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
The rules for employment agencies and businesses: licences, vulnerable people, opting out, job advertisements, transfer fees, trade unions, terms and conditions and contracts, travel and accommodation for work-seekers
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
What you need to do if you sell or store tobacco products in the UK.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
When you must tell the Environment Agency that you're storing material containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and how to do it.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
What to expect when the Valuation Office Agency visit and measure non-domestic property.
Find out how you can process or store similar free circulation goods in place of goods that you have declared to the UK Freeport customs special procedure.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
The guide to VAT rules and procedures.
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