Northern Ireland: watch the VAT quirks

Income tax and National Insurance work the same as in the rest of the UK, but Northern Ireland has its own wrinkles — goods trade runs under the Windsor Framework with EU-facing VAT rules, and support comes through Invest NI rather than the English growth hubs. It's specialist territory we handle as standard.

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