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How a business mentor can offer you guidance and support to help your business succeed, and how to become a business mentor.

Rules on using irradiated food in your business and how the law regulates this process and labelling.

Restrictions on the type of packaging and food contact materials that can be used for food products, and how to check your packaging is safe and compliant.

How residues of pesticides and veterinary medicines in food are controlled and what food businesses must do to ensure compliance.

The Back in Business scheme offers businesses a 50% rates discount for up to two years if they occupy a vacant retail unit.

The Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) provides different levels of rate relief for Northern Ireland business properties depending on their net annual value.

How acrylamide forms in food, how it affects health, and practical steps to reduce levels of acrylamide in food products.

If you sell or supply food, you need to follow strict rules on using colours and additives in foodstuffs, including those linked to hyperactivity in children.

How to control chemicals and additives in food so the products you make or sell are safe and legal.

What Value Added Tax is, how it works, different VAT rates, and who needs to register.

How to issue a bankruptcy petition.

How to issue a petition to close the business or enforce a judgment if your customer does not pay you.

How to seek a court order to recover debts if you win your claim and the customer still fails to pay.

The types of interest you can charge on unpaid debts and whether you are entitled to claim them back in court.

The procedures if a defence is entered and the case proceeds to a court hearing or trial.

Court procedures after your claim has been issued, and what the defendant's and your options are.

The forms and evidence you will need to issue a claim for payment.

In certain cases when collecting money owed to you it may be sensible to seek professional help.

Differences between the small claims track and the high court.

Alternatives to court action to recover payment from customers, and checking whether they can afford to pay you.

Your options when trying to obtain money owed to you and the procedures involved when taking your claim to court.

Access the tax forms, manuals and reference material needed when dealing with HMRC on behalf of your client.