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Understand Tax and VAT when self-employed
Guides which can help ensure you understand your responsibilities when it comes to tax and VAT for your startup business
Buying a business
Buy an existing business. Legal structures: the basics. Choose the right name for your business. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business.
Business acquisitions and mergers
Mergers. Mergers and acquisitions.
Selling your business
Complete the sale of your business. Closing a business checklist. How to achieve an employee buyout. Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business. Company and LLP strike-off, dissolution and restoration. ...
Transferring your business
Selling or passing a business to a family member. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. Succession planning and business transfer.
Manage business finances
Guides on why managing finance is an important part of starting and running your business
Family business
Understand the benefits and issues that affect family-run businesses, employing family members or financing from friends and family
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase
Business planning
Guides on how to create a business plan for your startup and how business plans can be useful at different stages of your business
Employment in your construction business
Guides to help constructions businesses understand their obligations and duty of care to employees
Your UK visa sponsorship licence rating
Various ratings for a UK visa sponsorship licence and how to upgrade if your licence is downgraded
Certificates of UK visa sponsorship
You must assign a certificate of sponsorship to each foreign worker you employ
Immigration skills charge and UK visa sponsorship
You might have to pay an additional charge when you assign a certificate of sponsorship to someone applying for a Skilled Worker or Intra-company Transfer visa
Job suitability for UK visa sponsorship
You can sponsor a worker if the job they’re going to do has a suitable rate of pay and skill level, or meets the other criteria needed for their visa
Employer responsibilities for UK visa sponsorship
Employers have a number of responsibilities that they must meet when employing someone on a UK visa sponsorship
UK visa sponsorship for employers
You’ll usually need a sponsor licence to employ someone to work for you from outside the UK
UK visa sponsorship for employers - eligibility
Eligibility criteria for employers applying for UK visa sponsorship licence
Types of UK visa sponsorship licence
Types of licences for workers under the UK visa sponsorship including a worker licence and temporary worker licence
UK visa sponsorship management roles
You need to appoint people within your business to manage the sponsorship process when you apply for a UK visa sponsorship licence