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Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.
Find out what records you must keep and how to keep them if you're registered for VAT.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
Use this form to record changes to the ownership of UK trade marks for full assignment of the rights.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
Find out how to link your temporary storage facility to Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) or the Customs Declaration Service using a Community Systems Provider.
How to fill in your Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) VAT Return and the records you need to keep when reporting the VAT due on imports of low value goods to consumers in the EU, Northern Ireland, or both.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - retailer and wholesaler responsibilities, waste collection and compliance schemes.
Find out how to qualify for drawback and what you'll need to do to make a claim on duty you have already paid.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Check what you need to do if you're sending, receiving and storing VAT invoices in an electronic format.
This document contains the following information: Report on the supply in the UK of pre-recorded compact discs, vinyl discs and tapes containing music.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
Use form C95 to declare a ship's stores.
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