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Starting a business
Home Business and Working from Home Checklist
About this document
A practical checklist for anyone starting or running a business from their home. It covers the permissions you may need, the costs that can arise (business rates, insurance, capital gains tax), and how to claim the tax allowances for using your home, with worked examples for sole traders and company directors.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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