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Find out how to work out your annual alcohol production if you’re part of a group, or you merge with, or separate from another business.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Find out about applying for the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, how to submit brand information, fees and making sure your production process is compliant.
The figures you’ll need and how to use them to work out your discounted duty rates.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
VAT and other taxes on shopping and services, including tax-free shopping, energy-saving equipment and mobility aids.
Find out how to apply for verification and what happens if you do not.
How to charge and account for VAT on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and EU member states (VAT Notice 725).
How to get relief from excise duty on oil used in certain ways using the Industrial Relief Scheme, also known as the Tied Oils Scheme.
When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
This external quality assessment (EQA) scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor bottled and mineral water for indicator organisms.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Get a benefit advance if you've applied for a benefit for the first time and cannot afford to wait for the first payment
How to apply to protect a wine name or aromatised wine name under the UK GI schemes and how to use a traditional term to describe a wine product.
Product recall for Podium sports drinks bottle presenting a risk of choking.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
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