The deadline for applying for customs and tariff support has been extended to 31 January 2021, the Government has announced.<\/p>\n
The grant funding scheme, launched in September 2019, was set to close on 31 January 2020.<\/p>\n
Under the scheme, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of funding to support recruitment, improve IT capability and train staff to submit customs declarations.<\/p>\n
According to the most recent figures, the scheme has helped businesses by providing around \u00a318.5 million in funding to date.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the support, Jesse Norman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said: \u201cThe UK will be leaving the single market and customs union at the end of 2020, and businesses will need to prepare to submit customs declarations.<\/p>\n
\u201cCustoms agents, freight forwarders and fast parcel operators can take advantage of the extended period by applying for grants to help them scale up and get ready.<\/p>\n
\u201cCustoms processes can be handled by a business directly, but most businesses currently trading outside Europe use a customs agent.\u201d<\/p>\n
To get started, your business must be established in or have a branch in the UK and not have previously failed to meet its tax obligations. Applications can be made for a number of eligible projects, the criteria of which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For help applying for grant funding or preparing to trade after the Brexit transitional period, get in touch with our expert team today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The deadline for applying for customs and tariff support has been extended to 31 January 2021, the Government has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,58,30,31,63,57,25,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}