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Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Use this service to apply to strike off a company from the Companies House register. It costs £33 to apply online, or £44 for a paper application.
Use Contracts Finder to find out about current contract opportunities with the government and its agencies.
As an employer, if you provide company cars or fuel for your employees' private use, you'll need to work out the taxable value so you can report this to HMRC
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
Check a business's EORI number, used to import and export goods from the UK
Download HMRC's free payroll software Basic PAYE Tools
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol.
How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
Calculate an employee’s maternity pay (SMP), paternity or adoption pay, relevant period and average weekly earnings
Claim up to £5,000 off your employer's National Insurance (NI), who is eligible, how to claim using your payroll software.
Loans and mentoring for people looking to start or grow a business in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Tell HMRC if you've stopped being self-employed, or you're ending or leaving a business partnership - responsibilities, tax returns, letting any employees know.
When your company or organisation pays Corporation Tax - paying, reporting and dormant companies
Use this service to send your lease and rent details to the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) if you've been contacted by them
Estimate your business rates by multiplying the rateable value of your business property by a multiplier value set by the government.
Find out if a potential employee's document gives them the right to work in the UK and which documents employers should check.
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
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