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Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing designated members and registering with Companies House.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
If you’ve decided that setting up a company and becoming a director is the best way forward for your business, it’s important to know the rules involved.
When you become the director of a limited company, you should be aware of the legal requirements and duties involved.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Paper forms that a limited company can file with Companies House.
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Use Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) form CIS305 to register your company as a subcontractor, or apply for gross payment status at the same time.
This form is used to make an application by a private limited company for re-registration as an unlimited company.
When your limited company doesn't have to get its accounts audited, what you need to put on your accounts if you don't and what to do if shareholders ask for an audit
Form for a private limited company to re-register as a public limited company (PLC)
Use this pro-forma to show assent to a private limited company being re-registered as an unlimited company.
This form is for public companies to re-register as a private limited company.
How to claim Corporation Tax relief when your limited company donates money, land, property or shares to charity
The forms you should use to tell Companies House about changes to the directors of your limited company.
Templates for giving notice of subscribers to incorporate a limited company with or without share capital.
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
Guidance on The European Public Limited – Liability Company (Employee Involvement)(Great Britain) Regulations 2009.
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
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