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Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
Find out the scale rate expenses for accommodation and subsistence paid to employees who travel outside of the UK.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Caldwell on 29 December 2025.
Find out how you could be made liable for the unpaid VAT of another VAT-registered business when you buy or sell specified goods.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
Find out which rates of exchange to use to work out the customs value of your imported goods if any invoice amounts are shown in a foreign currency.
Check if you were contracted out of the Additional State Pension and what it means for your State Pension
Tax and reporting rules for employers who meet or reimburse an employee's expenses - scale rate payments round sum allowances (RSA)
Defend a claim for a specified amount of money if you dispute it or make a counterclaim for money you think the claimant owes you.
What you must do by law with a deductions from earnings order (DEO or AEO) to make child maintenance deductions from your employee's pay.
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