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How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you sell shares, claiming tax relief
You may have to pay Capital Gains Tax if you make a profit (‘gain’) when…
You’ll need to work out your gain to find out whether you need to pay…
There’s a different way of working out your cost if you’ve sold the same…
You work out your gain differently if you’ve bought and sold shares…
You may be able to reduce or delay the amount of Capital Gains Tax you…
Calculate the cost of your shares in a company that's been taken over or has reorganised shares.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
How sellers deal with VAT for goods from overseas that they sell direct to customers in the UK.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler on 30 April 2024.
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer's speech to the Society of Editors 25th Anniversary Conference
Guidance on the many ways for suppliers to work with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the science inside UK defence and security.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
You can use the Right to Contest application to challenge government to sell land or property if you believe it’s not needed and could be put to better economic use.
Find out about ERS online service, annual returns, ceasing a scheme no longer operating or registered in error, net settlement reporting and Non-Statutory Clearance process.
Order a certificate of free sale to export medical devices outside the UK.
Apply for compensation if you own property near the proposed High Speed 2 route, Phase 1 or 2 - what you can claim for, eligibility, how to apply
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
How to use Method 1 to work out the customs value of your imported goods if you're an importer or clearing agent.
How you might know if your company is in distress.
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