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National Insurance contributions if you're self-employed - rates and exceptions.
How to open a Junior ISA for your child - including managing and adding money to an account.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Workplace pensions and automatic enrolment - how you're affected, how pensions are protected, what happens if you move job or go on maternity leave and how to opt out
Check what to do after a death - how to register the death, notify government departments and deal with the estate.
Apply for probate or confirmation if there's Inheritance Tax to pay, or if the deceased's estate does not qualify as an 'excepted estate'.
Being made redundant - rights, statutory payments you're entitled to, notice periods and consultation, finding a job.
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
When your company or organisation pays Corporation Tax - paying, reporting and dormant companies
Tell HMRC if you've stopped being self-employed, or you're ending or leaving a business partnership - responsibilities, tax returns, letting any employees know.
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Check whether you need to report and pay any tax on income you make apart from your main job or earnings.
Contact HM Revenue and Customs if you cannot pay your tax bill - get more time to pay or pay in instalments.
Scottish rate of Income Tax, what it's paid on, who pays it, how to work out which is your main home.
Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Find out who is entitled to a share of someone’s property, possessions and money if they die without making a will
Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.
How internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing, HMRC scams, immigration scams.
If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also called …
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