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These Data Element Completion instructions relate to Customs Declaration Service (CDS) Customs Clearance Requests ((CCR) inventory releases previously referred to as C21s) for import purposes only.
The CDS BIRDS Declarations and Customs Clearance Request completion…
Ensure that the goods are eligible to be declared using a Bulk Import…
DE 1/1 Declaration Type (Box 1: Declaration First Subdivision) Declaration…
DE 2/1 Simplified Declaration/ Previous Documents (Box 40: Declaration/…
DE 3/1 Exporter (Box 2: Consignor/ Exporter) Declaration Categories Field…
DE 4/3 Tax Type (Box 47a: Type) Declaration Categories Field format No. of…
DE 5/14 Country of Dispatch/Export Code (Box 15(a): Country of Dispatch…
DE 6/1 Net Mass (Box 38: Net Mass) Declaration Categories Field format No.…
DE 7/2 Container (Box 19: Container) Declaration Categories Field format…
DE 8/2 Guarantee Type and Cash Accounts (Box 44 and Box 52: Guarantee)…
This publication details the volume of customs declarations and number of businesses declaring international trade in goods in the calendar year 2023.
Find a list of codes for the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared (for example, licences and certificates) in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5A).
Ask HMRC to confirm that you, or if you’re an employer, your employee pays only UK National Insurance contributions whilst working temporarily in an EU country, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
Use this guidance and the examples included to help you if you are a contractor or subcontractor within the Construction Industry Scheme.
How to manage a registered pension scheme if you're a scheme administrator.
Supplementary guidance on how to check tax calculations or work out the trading profits of a business for Self Assessment tax return.
Information about tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers of these schemes.
Businesses must submit all export declarations through the Customs Declaration Service by 4 June.
Accounting Officer Assessment summaries for HMRC's major programmes and projects.
This sets out the main points from the HMRC Accounting Officer's Assessment of a major government programme.
Welcome to COG – process based guidance for compliance checks and assurance activity
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Help to Save service.
How HM Revenue & Customs works out the value of shares and assets in unquoted companies for Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax purposes
Use form CA5403 to request a copy of your National Insurance number by post.
Interim guidance regarding Excise Assessments
How to claim Corporation Tax relief for costs on R&D if you're a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME).
An explanation of the responsibilities of government departments and legislation and the basis for information in the UK Trade Tariff.
List of pharmaceutical products that you can claim customs duty relief on.
Changes to commodity codes used to import and export goods for 2020.
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