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Storing fireworks safely at your premises
How to store fireworks safely at your business premises and your responsibilities as a retailer under manufacture and storage of explosives legislation.
5 ways to protect your idea during a business pitch
How to protect your business or product idea when pitching it to prospective investors, clients and contractors
Marking of patented products
What is patent marking and how to mark your products correctly to show that you have a patent or patent pending rights
Marketing your product or service overseas
Ideas for how to market your product or service overseas.
Get started with VAT
What Value Added Tax is, how it works, different VAT rates and who needs to register
Creating a screen tourism experience - Clearsky Adventure Centre (video)
VAT returns
How to submit your VAT return, signing into your online VAT account and VAT fuel scale charges
Overseas businesses and UK VAT
VAT rules and how to register if you are an overseas business selling goods in the UK
VAT notices, notes and information sheets
Access the VAT notices, notes and information sheets
Copyright: Orphan works
How to use the UK orphan works licensing scheme to lawfully use creative work for which the right holder(s) cannot be found
Creating a successful e-commerce website - Old Mill Saddlery (video)
Blocks of shared parental leave
An employee taking shared parental leave (SPL) can split their leave into up to three separate blocks instead of taking it all in one go
Keep shared parental leave and pay records
You must keep shared parental leave and pay records for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Running a business as an entrepreneur with a disability - Omagh Music Academy (video)
Claire Bowes discusses some of the support and advice available for disabled entrepreneurs to start and run a business
Accountants and tax advisers - HMRC services and content
Quick links to useful services and content from HMRC for tax agents and accountants
Find your local council in Northern Ireland
Find contact details for local councils in Northern Ireland to access business services and support
Register for Aggregates Levy
Check when Aggregates Levy applies and how to register for it
Starting a social enterprise - SlackPress (video)
How SlackPress developed into a self-sufficient social enterprise that engages with the local community
Shared parental leave and pay
Employers' duties in relation to shared parental leave and pay and how to best manage these new rights for your employees
The right to shared parental leave and pay
Employees may be entitled to shared parental leave (SPL) and statutory shared parental pay (ShPP)