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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
Managing finance
Financial difficulty
- Introduction to insolvency
- Insolvency information for limited companies
- Insolvency information for partnerships
- Insolvency information for sole traders and individuals
- Complain against an insolvency practitioner or The Insolvency Service
- How to complain against a company or limited liability partnership
- Recover assets
Tax, payroll and company information
Tax
- Self Assessment
- VAT
- Business rates
- National Insurance
- Corporation Tax
- Construction Industry Scheme
- Capital Gains Tax
- Stamp taxes
- Excise duties
- Industry-specific taxes
- Tax reliefs and allowances
Payroll
Contact or deal with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
Search for company names and details online
Companies House returns, accounts and other responsibilities
- Company administration: an introduction
- Filing company information using WebFiling
- Companies House annual returns and accounts
- Companies House forms and detailed guidance
- Companies House penalties, appeals and complaints
Record keeping
Changes to your business
Selling or closing your business
Workplace health & safety
Health and safety made simple
- What you need to do about health and safety
- Write a health and safety policy for your business
- Decide who will help with your health and safety duties
- Managing the risks in your business
- Consult your employees on health and safety
- Provide training and information
- What workplace facilities do you need to provide?
- First aid, accidents and ill health
- Getting insurance
Specialised health and safety information
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
Green business strategy and marketing
Goods and services
Environmental guidance by business sector
- Chemical industry
- Construction and building trades
- Electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing
- Engineering and metalworking
- Food and drink production
- Furniture manufacturing
- Metal production and processing
- Offices, retail and hospitality
- Paper and cardboard manufacturing
- Printing industry
- Waste and recycling industry
Premises and property
Business premises
Property management
Adapting your premises or property
Energy efficiency of buildings
International trade
Getting started
Sector overviews and regulations
Customs procedures and systems
Export and import licences
Moving your goods
- Preparing your goods for transport
- Transport options for moving your goods
- Taking lorries abroad
- Transporting dangerous goods
- Freight forwarding
Tax in international trade
Buy or sell a business
Acquiring a business
Selling your business
Exiting and transferring your business
Site-wide tools and info
- Local Business Link
- Find a contact
- Find a case study
- Find events
- Business support finder
- Business start-up organiser
- Regulation checklist
- Regulation updates
- Tax deadline email alerts
- Create a written statement of employment
- Create a personal development plan
- Health & safety performance indicator
- Use online government services
- Online government services activation
- Consultations
- Feedback
