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Use this service to send your lease and rent details to the Valuation Office (VO) if you've been contacted by them
Check the rateable value and report changes to your property in England: challenge your property’s rateable value if you disagree with it.
Use this service to apply to strike off a company from the Companies House register.
Loans and mentoring for people looking to start or grow a business in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, what you can register, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol.
Find out what level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check you can get for someone else, such as an employee. Formerly a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.
Calculate an employee’s maternity pay (SMP), paternity or adoption pay, relevant period and average weekly earnings
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
What happens if someone makes a money claim against you, saying you owe them money, and how you can respond or defend yourself
Find out if a potential employee's document gives them the right to work in the UK and which documents employers should check.
As an employer, if you provide company cars or fuel for your employees' private use, you'll need to work out the taxable value so you can report this to HMRC
When your company or organisation pays Corporation Tax - paying, reporting and dormant companies
Search for patents and supplementary certificates (SPCs) that have been granted, published and filed
Class 1 National Insurance (NI) contribution rates for the current tax year, what NI category letters mean.
Search for companies that can do Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on your behalf (formerly Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks)
Use Contracts Finder to find out about current contract opportunities with the government and its agencies.
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