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Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.
Find news, information and advice from the government on starting or growing your business.
Advice provided to Viscount Camrose, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office
Advice provided to the Rt Hon Sir Andrew Mitchell, former Minister of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, on appointments and employment taken up within two years of leaving office
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Lord Fairley on 21 January 2026.
Find out how to determine the place of supply of your services and how to deal with supplies of services which you receive from outside the UK.
A collection of summaries of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS1 – SCS4 level and equivalents.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company.
Find out about changes to the Business Investment Relief rules from 6 April 2017.
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