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Gig-goers have been urged to be wary of scams when purchasing last-minute tickets on social media after £1.6 million was lost to ticket fraud in 2024.

• Updated: 24 June 2025

Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments

• When a payment becomes late

  You can claim interest and debt recovery costs if another business is late…

• Interest on late commercial payments

  The interest you can charge if another business is late paying for goods…

• Claim debt recovery costs on late payments

  You can also charge a business a fixed sum for the cost of recovering a…

Find information on how interest is charged on PAYE and Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) payments made late if you're an employer.

• Updated: 27 March 2024

From 1 January 2023, HMRC will charge VAT-registered businesses late payment interest from the first day their payment is overdue until it is paid in full.

• Updated: 2 May 2025

Find out about late payment penalties and how to appeal if you're an employer.

• Updated: 13 December 2017

The rules on working hours - hour and limits, rests, health assessments and terms and conditions

Celebrating the geographical work across the civil, crown and public sector, the Government Geography profession has today opened up nominations for its annual awards.

• Updated: 21 March 2023

Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu

In the latest move to restore order to the asylum and immigration system, the government will introduce tough new laws to clamp down on illegal working.

• Updated: 30 March 2025

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments