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Starting up
Before you start
- Considering starting up?
- Starting a business - meeting the challenges
- Finding and managing the money
Forming and naming your business
Your workplace
Taxes, payroll & returns
Employing people
Managing your business
- Sales and marketing
- Financial control, operations and transport
- Contracts and suppliers
- IT and e-commerce for start ups
- Importing and exporting
- Protecting your business & ideas
- Choosing advisers and services
Starting a business in Europe
Finance and grants
Raising finance
- Choose the right finance when starting up
- Identify the right finance options for your business
- Use your business plan to get funding
- Finance options
Expert financial advice
Managing finance
- Financial planning and accounts
- Manage your cashflow
- Managing a business when economic conditions are tough
- Managing suppliers and payments
- Debt recovery
- Business banking
- Insurance
Financial difficulty
Taxes, returns & payroll
Taxes
- Introduction to business taxes
- VAT
- National Insurance
- PAYE for employers
- Expenses and benefits for employers
- Corporation Tax
- Self Assessment
- Capital allowances
- Business rates
- Construction Industry Scheme
- Stamp taxes
- Paying HM Revenue & Customs
- Tax help and inspections
- Tax when giving to charity
- Capital Gains Tax for businesses
- Excise duties
- Industry-specific taxes
Legal structures, records & returns
- Choosing, setting up and changing a legal structure
- Getting started with company administration
- Choosing professional advisers
- Manage your Companies House filings and annual return
- Changes you must report to Companies House
- Companies House responsibilities and penalties
Online services
Selling or closing the business
Health, safety, premises
Health and safety
Environment & efficiency
Environmental compliance and responsibility
- Your environmental responsibilities - an overview
- Permits and licences
- Waste legislation and responsibility
- Managing hazardous substances
- Preventing and managing pollution
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Save money and resources
- Making your business more resource efficient
- Cut energy costs
- Cut water costs
- Tax breaks, finance and incentives
Reducing carbon emissions
Improving your environmental performance
- Measuring and reporting environmental performance
- Using an environmental management system (EMS)
- Making your business more sustainable
- Sources of environmental advice
Green business strategy and marketing
Goods and services
Environmental guidance by business sector
IT & e-commerce
Get the most from your IT
Doing business online
Data protection and managing risk
Communications, software and data storage
IT security, staffing and legal issues
International trade
Getting started
Industry overviews and regulations
Practicalities of importing and exporting
Export and import licences
- Export Control Organisation
- Do you need an export or import licence?
- Enforcing CITES controls
- Importing controlled goods
Regulatory barriers when exporting
Classifying your goods
Payments and reliefs
Declarations and notifications
Movement of goods
Global trading
Buy or sell a business
Acquiring a business
Selling your business
Site-wide tools and info
- Local Business Link
- Find a publication
- Find a contact
- Find a case study
- Find events
- Business support finder
- Business start-up organiser
- Regulation checklist
- Regulation updates
- Tax deadline email alerts
- Licence and permit checklist
- Create a written statement of employment
- Create a personal development plan
- Health & safety performance indicator
- Use online government services
- Online government services activation
