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What to put in your trustees' annual report, depending on what type of accounts your charity prepares.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
Use this service to apply for certificates and inspections if you export plants from England and Wales.
Check if you can amend or cancel your import declaration and what you need to do to make an amendment or request a cancellation.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
The processes you need to follow, and the documents you need to submit, when you are a community interest company or you wish to form (or convert to) a community interest company.
This guidance explains how to apply for support through the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS) ahead of applications opening on 1 October 2026.
Use this service to dispute an employer PAYE charge and ask HMRC for help to find the payroll error and fix the problem.
Information about licence-linked qualifications, the awarding organisations that offer these qualifications, and how to find an approved training provider.
The different types of SIA licence, and which job activities need a licence.
Find out how to submit a claim for tax repayments using online forms and databases.
What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
How to check if your criminal record will affect your licence application, and the information you need to provide for our criminality checks.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Find out how the Customs Declaration Service cash account works, when it can be used and what type of customs charges you can pay.
Get authorised to declare goods you bring into Northern Ireland 'not at risk’ of moving to the EU, using the Simplified Processes for Internal Market Movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
What the retirement of analogue phone lines, also known as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), means for you.
Decide whether to set up a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), a charitable company or an unincorporated association or trust.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
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