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How to file company information - including directors, registered office and shareholders in your confirmation statement (previously AR01 annual return)
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
From today (Monday 4 March 2024), Companies House has new and enhanced powers to improve the quality and reliability of its data and tackle misuse of the companies register.
How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Yearly statistics on company incorporations and dissolutions, and the total size of the register.
Quarterly release providing information about the number of companies on the register, newly incorporated companies, and removals from the register.
Management information tables published annually for each financial year, from the start of April to the end of the following March.
How to remove information that should never have been delivered to Companies House.
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
Hear first-hand experiences of the challenges and advantages of owning your own business, with advice on how to get started.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
File your Company Tax Return with HMRC, and your company accounts with Companies House
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.
Sets out the main requirements for incorporating a company in the UK.
All data on Companies House spending over £500 since January 2014.
How to send information to Companies House through our extensible markup language (XML) schemas, by purchasing software or developing your own.
Information about registered land and property in England and Wales owned by overseas companies.
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