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What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Learn more about your responsibilities if you're running a small business including registration, tax returns, record keeping, tax bills and payments.
Find guidance to help decide the employment status of a worker, including employment intermediaries.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
You have the right to speak for yourself in court without a solicitor or legal professional - where to get help with papers and procedures
What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
A guide to the types of development that will be exempt from the mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
If you’ve missed Self Assessment deadlines get an estimate of how much you’ll need to pay in penalties and interest
Learn how to check if your website or mobile app is accessible.
VAT refunds on building new homes and conversions - how to claim, application form and guidance notes
Guidance, forms and helpsheets for self-employment. Including setting up your business, filing returns, claiming expenses and how to get help and support.
How customers and their suppliers must treat VAT if they're using self-billing arrangements.
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.
Claiming Universal Credit if you're self-employed - eligibility, reporting your earnings, start up periods
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
What cattle keepers must record and report when they move cattle, bison or buffalo and the deadlines.
Personal pensions, stakeholder pensions, SIPPs
Includes filing, deadlines, pay and tax records
How to get online help with Self Assessment from HMRC by using our digital assistant, community forums, YouTube videos and online tools.
Helpsheets for your Self Assessment tax return.
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