We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use 51²è¹Ý, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Estimate your business rates by multiplying the rateable value of your business property by a multiplier value set by the government.
Your legal right to time off to care for dependants - when you can take time off, how long you get, your rights
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
Tell HMRC if you've stopped being self-employed, or you're ending or leaving a business partnership - responsibilities, tax returns, letting any employees know.
There is no law for a minimum or maximum temperature, but during working hours the temperature in all workplaces inside buildings must be reasonable
Contact Companies House to register your limited company, file returns and accounts
Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
Employer and employee guide to unpaid parental leave - eligibility, how much leave can be taken and notice periods, postponing leave
Apply for a sponsor licence so you can sponsor foreign workers or students to come and work or study in the UK
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
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.
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
What happens if someone makes a money claim against you, saying you owe them money, and how you can respond or defend yourself
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
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 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.
Use the sponsor management system - employers sponsoring Worker and Temporary Worker visa holders
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…
Claim up to £10,500 off your employer's National Insurance (NI), who is eligible, how to claim using your payroll software.
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve 51²è¹Ý, we’d like to know more about your visit today. .