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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Office Supplies Marketplace is an online directory of suppliers for the purchase of low value office supplies, such as stationery and paper, across the public sector
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
Retailers can calculate the VAT they have to record in their account per day or week instead of for each sale
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Accounting for VAT using retail schemes if you're a VAT-registered business and you cannot account for VAT using normal accounting.
Business plans - download free templates and get help writing a business plan
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 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.
Find out how to manage a customs warehouse, handle goods, and process, repair and move goods.
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.
What you need to do if you sell or store tobacco products in the UK.
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.
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 guide to VAT rules and procedures.
Find out about the Direct Calculation VAT Retail Schemes 1 and 2, how they work and what records you must keep.
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