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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.
Apply for a sponsor licence so you can sponsor foreign workers or students to come and work or study in the UK
Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
Tell HMRC about changes to your business - a change of name, address, legal structure or business activity
Application to register (incorporate) a private or public company within the UK.
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
Taking your car out of the UK - when VAT is not payable on a car you're exporting, procedures, registration and vehicle tax.
Employers can use the 'Find a job’ service to advertise jobs online
Find registered designs in the UK
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.
To start a charity you need trustees, to choose a business structure, decide suitable charitable purposes and you may have to register with the Charity Commission.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Find government-owned property, buildings or land that's available to buy, or contest its use
Use the sponsor management system - employers sponsoring Worker and Temporary Worker visa holders
Business plans - download free templates and get help writing a business plan
Sign in to Intrastat, eBTI and New Export System and other excise, import and export services
VAT, duty and customs declarations for goods received by post or courier - paying, collecting your goods, getting a refund and documents.
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
Use these schedule spreadsheets to claim back tax through Gift Aid, Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) or other income using Charities Online.
Reclaim Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Parental Bereavement Pay and Shared Parental Pay, find out about Small Employers’ Relief and get help if you cannot afford payments.
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