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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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Find out if simplified expenses suits your business. Compare what expenses you can claim using simplified expenses with what you can claim by working out the actual costs.
Running a business from home - insurance, business rates, expenses, tax allowances
Become a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
Crime and fraud issues in international trade: theft of goods, money laundering, cyber crime, employee fraud, infringement of intellectual property.
Use a simpler calculation to work out income tax for your vehicle, home and business premises expenses
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Guidance and tax advice for businesses, sole traders and limited companies, including how to set up, your responsibilities and how to get help with your taxes.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Business leaders from across business representative organisations, small and large businesses have endorsed the launch of the UK Government’s new Small Business Plan.
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