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What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
How to claim Corporation Tax relief when your limited company donates money, land, property or shares to charity
Check if your company can pay a reduced rate of 10% Corporate Tax if it exploits patented inventions and innovations.
Information and guidance on Business Improvement Districts.
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.
Claim capital allowances so your business pays less tax when you buy assets - equipment, fixtures, business cars, plant and machinery, annual investment allowance, first year allowances.
Studies whether small-scale businesses can learn and adopt profitable practices of their successful peers
How to identify and report harmful trade practices that affect your business when exporting, importing or operating domestically.
Business plans - download free templates and get help writing a business plan
When and how to account for VAT when you transfer a business as a going concern (TOGC).
Find out if simplified expenses suits your business. Compare what expenses you can claim using simplified expenses with what you can claim by working out the actual costs.
Find out about a scheme used by individual landlords to avoid paying tax on their property income and reduce Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax.
Capital Gains Tax when you sell a property that's not your home: work out your gain and pay your tax on buy-to-let, business, agricultural and inherited properties
How to get Inheritance Tax relief on business assets in an estate, what qualifies, giving away business property or assets
Flat Rate VAT scheme - eligibility, thresholds, flat rates of VAT and joining or leaving the scheme
Use a simpler calculation to work out income tax for your vehicle, home and business premises expenses
How to work out your transition profit for the 2023 to 2024 tax year if you are affected by the new tax year basis (Basis Period Reform).
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Find out about changes to the Business Investment Relief rules from 6 April 2017.
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