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Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Check your local council for advice on becoming a licensed chaperone for children in the entertainment, modelling or sports
Get ready to employ someone - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance.
What to do if you're an employer who has been taken to an employment tribunal. Find out about the hearing, what happens if you lose your case and how to appeal.
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
Find HMRC-recognised payroll software to manage your Real Time Information (RTI) PAYE payments and deductions.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing company cars, including fuel
Get information on bankruptcy, redundancy, paying off your debts, company insolvency and misconduct of trading companies and partnerships.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
Use this form to give notice of change of details for person with significant control.
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
Use this form to register a statement of satisfaction in full or in part of a mortgage or charge against a company. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
Use this form to apply to restore a company to the Companies House register.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you're a sole trader or in a business partnership, claiming tax relief.
PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA) allow employers to make an annual payment to HRMC for some types of expenses and benefits - apply, renew, deadlines
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