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Tendering for contracts
Understand how tendering works, how to prepare your business to tender for contracts and present prices through estimates and quotations to your potential customers
Selling online
Accepting online payments. Create an online shop. Search engine optimisation. Pay per click advertising. Distance selling and online trading. Fulfilling online orders. Planning for e-commerce.
Service industries
Overview of regulations for trading in services
Getting started in retail
Guides which can help you to start up a retail business from finding the right idea to investing in an existing business.
Improving your retail business
Guides to help you enhance and improve your retail business through marketing, growing sales and finding suppliers.
Your retail premises
Guides to help you find and effectively manage retail premises to ensure access for all and a safe retail environment.
Retail businesses and the environment
Guides to help your retail business lessen its impact on the environment and make a real difference on climate change.
Retailing and the law
Guides which summarise common legal issues which retail businesses must be aware of and comply with.
Employing people in your retail business
Guides which can help your retail business to understand employment issues, rights and how to comply with the law.
Transport
Guidance for transport businesses on operating inside and outside Northern Ireland and your legal obligations
Northern Ireland passenger transport
Our passenger transport guides detail the regulations and best practice when running a bus, taxi or other passenger service
International haulage rules
Guides to help you understand the rules and regulations for international haulage businesses
Safety when transporting goods
Guides on regulations and best practice for managing health and safety in your goods transport business
Your employees and transport
Guidance on helping your staff get to and from their workplace and health and safety guidance within the work environment
International passenger transport
Guidance for businesses operating international passenger transport from Northern Ireland
Starting a transport business
Guides which cover how you can start and run a transport business in Northern Ireland
Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return
If your business is registered for VAT in the UK, find out when you can, or need to, account for import VAT on your VAT Return (also called postponed VAT accounting)
Bringing live animals to NI from EU via the GB landbridge
The procedures to follow for transit of live animals moving from EU to Northern Ireland through GB only
Report goods exported to the EU using inward or outward processing
Check if you should submit information sheets (INFs) if you're a UK trader using customs special procedures for inward or outward processing
Tell HMRC if you sell goods in Northern Ireland or move goods between Northern Ireland and the EU
If you're a VAT-registered business trading in Northern Ireland or between Northern Ireland and the EU you need to tell HMRC, so you can continue to account for VAT on acquisitions and dispatches