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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
This research shows how the dispositions of business owners shape how they think about and run their businesses.
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…
How you go about increasing sales depends on your circumstances and how…
One way of finding new customers for your products and services is by…
If you’re looking to grow your business by improving your products and…
If you’re planning to develop new products and services, you should test…
As your business expands, you’ll need more capacity to produce or provide…
Business mentors can help you develop your ideas for growth by sharing…
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Check what you need to do if you own a UK legal services business and are a lawyer with qualifications from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
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