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What you need to know if you are providing a guarantee for a customer undertaking transit movements.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
You can usually get permission to use someone else’s intellectual property…
To use an existing trade mark you should contact the current owner. Find…
Contact the owner of the patent to see if they’ll: license it to you sell…
You can’t copy or use copyright material without permission. For example,…
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The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National Insurance, what...
You’re usually considered the employer of a nanny, housekeeper, gardener…
Au pairs usually live with the family they work for and are unlikely to be…
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
How to find and use the statistics and analysis from the People and Nature Surveys for England.
Find out if relief is available for goods using Temporary Admission and if your goods require you to be established inside or outside the UK.
Learn more about getting started as an employer or running a small business including registration, payroll, tax returns, tax bills and payments.
You must make sure that anyone you employ to drive a vehicle has the right licence and qualifications - tachographs, lorry, bus, coach, minibus
Guidance for employers on employing someone outside the UK.
How to appoint a payment representative or an agent to deal with VAT-related payments if you do not have a business establishment in the UK.
Information for employers on checking EU, EEA and Swiss citizens’ right to work.
How to attract, recruit and retain disabled people.
How to get state healthcare if you live, work or study in France.
The Government is introducing legislation to allow people to use video-conferencing technology for the witnessing of wills being made.
A summary of what delivering better integrated care means and how Monitor is supporting the sector.
The steps you can take to tackle an intruder or burglar in your own home - and what force you can use to defend yourself
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
How to use focus groups to evaluate your digital health product.
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