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Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing designated members and registering with Companies House.
How to register a new charge at Companies House, or tell us about any you've paid off.
How a late filing penalty will be imposed if your company or LLP's accounts are not filed on time, and how to appeal against a penalty.
A list of company formation agents and company secretarial agents you can use to incorporate your company.
Register now to find out more about what you need to consider when starting a company.
How to ask Companies House to extend your filing deadline if an unplanned event stops you filing your accounts.
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.
What to do if you think you've spotted a scam pretending to be from Companies House, and examples of scam emails, letters and telephone calls.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
This guidance explains what happens when a private company opts to keep certain statutory register information on the public register.
How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address for correspondence, or a shareholder's address. This also applies to LLPs and LLP members.
How to access public data from the Companies House register using our data products.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Model articles of association for companies limited by guarantee that were incorporated on or after 28 April 2013.
Registration and filing obligations of an overseas company that opens an establishment in the UK.
Information about changes that UK companies need to file with Companies House and the rules and requirements on how to submit them.
A list of overseas company registries.
A list of all the fees Companies House charges, and how we determine these fees.
A list of some of the UK-regulated agents who have an agent assurance code and can complete verification checks on beneficial owners of an overseas entity.
Our standard list of nationalities and countries.
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