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Claim up to £10,500 off your employer's National Insurance (NI), who is eligible, how to claim using your payroll software.
What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
If you're an employer and provide expenses or benefits to employees or directors, you might need to tell HMRC and pay tax and National Insurance on them
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision
Whistleblowing - what it is, who to tell, what to expect and how to complain if you're treated unfairly.
Running a business from home - insurance, business rates, expenses, tax allowances
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.
Check if you can get a reduction in your business rates bill with business rates relief and find out how to apply.
Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties - who has to pay, how your rates are calculated, getting a revaluation, what to do if your premises change.
Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
Business Asset Disposal Relief (was known as Entrepreneurs' Relief) can reduce your Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell certain business assets or shares - eligibility, deadlines, how to claim.
Sign in to Intrastat, eBTI and New Export System and other excise, import and export services
Application to register (incorporate) a private or public company within the UK.
Use these schedule spreadsheets to claim back tax through Gift Aid, Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) or other income using Charities Online.
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Steps you must follow when importing vehicles into the UK, including making an import declaration, paying VAT and duty and telling HMRC using the NOVA service.
Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms
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