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Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
Contact Companies House to register your limited company, file returns and accounts
Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties - who has to pay, how your rates are calculated, getting a revaluation, what to do if your premises change.
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Business Asset Disposal Relief (was known as Entrepreneurs' Relief) can reduce your Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell certain business assets or shares - eligibility, deadlines, how to claim
Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.
When you do and do not have to offer a refund, repair or replacement, unconditional refunds for online purchases, and penalties for deceiving customers
What to do if you receive a county court judgment (CCJ) - how to get it set aside or change what you pay, what happens if you do not pay, how to search the register. Includes information from the withdrawn EX320 and EX326 gu…
Employer calculator - calculate your employee’s statutory redundancy payment
Apply for a sponsor licence so you can sponsor foreign workers or students to come and work or study in the UK
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
When you need planning permission, where to apply, what counts as permitted development and how to appeal a planning permission decision
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