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Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
Estimate your business rates by multiplying the rateable value of your business property by a multiplier value set by the government.
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties - who has to pay, how your rates are calculated, getting a revaluation, what to do if your premises change.
How to pay Class 1A National Insurance for employers, including a HMRC reference number, bank details, Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, overseas payments and deadlines.
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
Find a Trading Standards office to complain about illegal sales activity or to get business advice about trading legally
When you do and do not have to offer a refund, repair or replacement, unconditional refunds for online purchases, and penalties for deceiving customers
Business Asset Disposal Relief (was known as Entrepreneurs' Relief) can reduce your Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell certain business assets or shares - eligibility, deadlines, how to claim
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
What happens if someone makes a money claim against you, saying you owe them money, and how you can respond or defend yourself
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
What to do if you receive a county court judgment (CCJ) - how to get it set aside or change what you pay, what happens if you do not pay, how to search the register. Includes information from the withdrawn EX320 and EX326 gu鈥�
Download HMRC's free payroll software Basic PAYE Tools
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