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It’s important that you keep up-to-date records of the income and expenditure connected with your company.

• Updated: 7 July 2023

Even the best-run business can face unexpected challenges and solvency issues. It's important you recognise the signs and understand your duties as a director.

• Updated: 1 April 2022

Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.

• Overview

  You can apply to be a guardian and manage the finances or property of…

• Who can apply

  You can apply if you’re the missing person’s: husband, wife or civil…

• Apply to be a guardian

  You can make a claim yourself or use a legal representative. Fill in the…

• How much it costs

  You must pay either: a £528 application fee if you apply to the Chancery…

• After you've applied

  The court will send copies of your form back to you, with ‘acknowledgement…

• When you’re appointed as a guardian

  The guardianship order will tell you when you can start to make decisions…

• Make decisions

  The Office of the Public Guardian will supervise you while you act as a…

• Keeping records, giving gifts and claiming expenses

  You must keep financial records and accounts. Follow the rules for gifts…

• Complete your report

  You must write a report for the Office of the Public Guardian each year…

• Make a decision that's not covered by the order

  You must apply to the High Court if you need to change your guardianship,…

• When the guardianship ends

  Your guardianship ends automatically if one of the following things…

Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.

• Updated: 11 July 2023

This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.

• Updated: 23 January 2023

The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.

• Updated: 11 July 2024

What you must record in a holding register (also called a flock or herd record), when to update it and what to use.

• Updated: 4 September 2023

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You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.

• Updated: 13 August 2024

Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.