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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Once your business is established and you’re making a profit on the…
Growing your business, whether through increased sales or improved…
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Guidance for UK companies on winning business from international aid and development projects.
How companies can help developing countries through the development and uptake of inclusive business models.
This measure amends and inserts provisions relating to the calculation of the profits of a property business.
Working out your Corporation Tax rate and getting reliefs and other deductions from your Corporation Tax bill
What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
How to report profit on your Self Assessment tax return from 2023 to 2024 if your accounting year does not end on or between 31 March to 5 April.
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you're a sole trader or in a business partnership, claiming tax relief
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Business expenses you can claim if you're self-employed
Find out if you’re a money service business and need to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Small businesses can record income and expenses when money is actually paid rather than when they've invoiced or received
Get help if you’re a tax agent or adviser who has clients with business profits to declare on Self Assessment and Company Tax Returns.
Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
Can businesses generate profit and positive impact from goods and services targeted at poor people?
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