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Provides guidance on planning for retail and other town centre uses.
What to expect when the Valuation Office Agency visit and measure non-domestic property.
How the Valuation Office Agency calculates your rateable value for business rates.
We have introduced a business rates holiday for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2024/25 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
Trading hours for retailers, restrictions on Sunday opening and public holiday opening in England, Wales and Scotland
How to register for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme to sell or move food to Northern Ireland.
Find out about the upcoming Single Trade Window service that will help users to meet their border obligations.
Accounting for VAT using retail schemes if you're a VAT-registered business and you cannot account for VAT using normal accounting.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Rules for tinted vehicle windows and what could happen if you break the rules
Find out about customs special procedures and outward processing that allow you to suspend, pay less or pay no duty on goods you import or export.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
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