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What to do if you’re a company director or an accountant who has to pay a penalty to Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline
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
Complain about or report company for breaking the law or committing fraud, running scams, or selling faulty products of services
Use this form if your confirmation date is 4 March 2024 or earlier, to confirm that the company's details are up to date.
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)
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
Use this form to give notice of shares allotted following incorporation. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Use these application forms to open an online filing presenter account with Companies House.
Unincorporated associations are organisations set up through an agreement between a group of people who come together for a reason other than to make a profit
How to appeal a penalty if you’re a company director or an accountant who has received a penalty from Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
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.
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