Guidance and regulation

Guidance on debt relief orders for debt advisers. To search, press ‘control’ and ‘f’ on your keyboard at the same time. A search box will appear.

• From: The Insolvency Service
• Updated: 14 May 2024

Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 20 November 2023

England's Blue Badge scheme plus user's rights and responsibilities.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 9 July 2020

Official vets and inspectors in England, Scotland and Wales: register or sign in to EHC online to certify export health certificates.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 7 November 2023

Check the final amounts of import VAT and duty due online if you make declarations using the Customs Declaration Service.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 13 September 2019

Assess your goods, software and technology to determine whether or not they are controlled and require a licence to export.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 3 April 2024

When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

The Flexible AI Upskilling Fund pilot scheme will support SMEs in the Professional and Business Services Sector by match-funding AI skills training for their employees.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
• Updated: 24 May 2024

Check for free and paid-for software recognised by HMRC that you can use to report PAYE information online.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 24 May 2024

Information on the UK government’s framework to create UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) by assessing and endorsing the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 16 May 2024

Models, templates and guidance for constitutions, articles of association and trust deeds for a new charity or charitable trust.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 11 October 2022

What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 1 May 2024

Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

Find out how you can hire a person or business to deal with customs for you.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 8 June 2022

A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2024

If your business is registered for VAT in the UK, find out when you can, or need to, account for import VAT on your VAT Return (also called postponed VAT accounting).

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 1 October 2022

How to claim Corporation Tax relief for costs on R&D if you're a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME).

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 8 May 2024

How to pay what you owe if you've used the Customs Declaration Service to tell HMRC you've imported goods into the UK.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 15 August 2023

Business e-services customers can use MapSearch to find out if a property is registered, view its location and obtain its title number and details of tenure.

• From: HM Land Registry
• Updated: 17 July 2014

What's required of a charity trustee, including your responsibilities to your charity.

• From: The Charity Commission
• Updated: 3 May 2018