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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Once your business is established and you’re making a profit on the…
Growing your business, whether through increased sales or improved…
How you go about increasing sales depends on your circumstances and how…
One way of finding new customers for your products and services is by…
If you’re looking to grow your business by improving your products and…
If you’re planning to develop new products and services, you should test…
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Things to consider when buying and using products.
Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments
If you get tips at work they do not count towards the National Minimum…
You have to pay Income Tax on any tips you get, and may have to pay…
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
FCDO travel advice for Kazakhstan. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
Management systems, policies and checks you need in place at your MOT centre to make sure MOT testing is done to the right standard.
You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
What you need to know about and do to comply with the law and keep consumers safe.
The guide to VAT rules and procedures.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Invoicing and taking payment from customers, what invoices must include, VAT invoices, sole trader invoices, limited company invoices, payment options, charging for late payment, chargebacks
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Resources for business.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
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