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Transporting your goods
Find out the transport options for moving your goods
Classifying your goods
Learn how to classify your goods for import and export
Find out when to make an exit summary declaration
If you're moving goods outside the UK, you'll need to make an exit summary declaration if you've not fulfilled safety and security requirements with a customs export declaration.
Importing or moving fish to the UK
How to import or move fish for human consumption to the UK.
Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol
Use this guide as a supplement when using the CDS trade tariffs to import and export goods to and from Northern Ireland.
Charging VAT on goods dispatched from Northern Ireland to the EU
Check if VAT is due when you sell, supply or transfer goods from Northern Ireland to the EU.
Starting a company or partnership
Guidance for businesses on how to set up, register and name a new company or partnership with Companies House
Get someone to deal with customs for you
How you can hire a person or business to deal with customs for you.
Apply for a CPD Carnet
Find out how the CPD Carnet works, how to apply and what to do at customs.
How to move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland: step-by-step
This checklist covers customs requirements for NI businesses buying goods from GB.
How to use your ATA Carnet
Find out how the ATA Carnet works, what to do at customs, and what happens if your goods are lost, destroyed or stolen
Register for Self Assessment (video)
How to register with HM Revenue & Customs for Self Assessment
Self Assessment tax return deadlines
Important deadline dates for your Self Assessment tax returns.
Privacy information under UK GDPR
Best practices for UK GDPR privacy notices: what to include, how to present, and when to provide for compliance.
Import food and drink from the EU to Great Britain
Find out what you need to do to import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
What should my record-keeping system include?
The legal requirements for a record-keeping system.
Cash sales and purchases/expenses books
Recording money that comes in and goes out of your business - your cashflow.
Set up a basic record-keeping system
What you need to record and for how long, with step-by-step guidance on setting up your own system.
Record-keeping best practice
Good record keeping habits and the "four S" approach: system, separate, security, storage.
5 tips for record-keeping
Record-keeping tips to help you pay the tax you owe and keep an eye on financial activities.