Please see recent updates below that may be relevant for your business and supply chains.

 HMRC updates - VAT

 

Making a late supplementary declaration

Find out how to submit a supplementary declaration when you’ve missed the deadline.
A link has been added so that you can send your estimate of the taxes due to HMRC online.

 

How to claim a repayment of import duty and VAT if you've overpaid

Use the Customs Declaration Service or Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight online service, or form C285, depending on where you made your declaration. Clarified how to reclaim a repayment of VAT if you’re VAT registered.

 

Goods Movement

 

Get an export health certificate

How to get an export health certificate to export or move live animals and animal products from Great Britain to the EU, Northern Ireland or non-EU countries.

Updated the section ‘If you cannot find an EHC for your product’ to add more information relating to import conditions.

 

Find a Country Head

Country heads are global representatives of UKEF.
Contact details for Country Head for Vietnam and Cambodia & Laos have been added.

 

Net Zero and Plastic Packaging

 

Submit your Plastic Packaging Tax return

Information has been added to confirm what HMRC may do if you do not submit your return or pay your tax on time, and how you can appeal a decision.

 

Local net zero: support for local authorities and communities

Central government provides a range of support to help local authorities and communities to decarbonise. Added a list of projects supported by Community Energy Fund

 

Trade and Export support

 

The UK trade remedies investigations process

How the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority investigates whether trade remedy measures are needed to counteract unfair import practices.

Updated guidance on transition reviews into anti-dumping and countervailing measures.

 

Trade barriers: what you need to know

Find out what trade barriers are and how they may affect you when exporting goods or services. Link to information about ‘harmful international trading practices’ added to the ‘further information’ section of the page.

 

How to apply for UKEF credit insurance

Find out about the application process for UKEF credit insurance, and what information and documents you’ll need to share.

First published.

 

OPSS updates

 

Product safety recalls: summer safety 2024

OPSS identifies product safety recalls to help keep you safe this summer.

First published.

 

Sanctions

The UK Sanctions List

Added 7 new designations under the Belarus sanctions regime.

 

Skills and training

 

AI Upskilling fund

The AI Upskilling fund pilot scheme will support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by match-funding AI skills training for their employees.

Added details of a drop-in webinar on Wednesday 14 August 2024

 

Regulation of end-point assessments: status

Confirmed apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPAs) for standards regulated by Ofqual.

Updated the file of confirmed Ofqual regulated end-point assessments.

 

Flexi-job apprenticeships using an approved agency

Clarified which sectors the North East Apprenticeship Company cover in each region.