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How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
Find out what you need to do to set up and register or close a charity in England and Wales.
Schools adjudicator decisions on opening, closing and making significant changes (prescribed alterations) to maintained schools.
How to tell the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) that you're closing one or more of the MOT centres in your business.
Flexible closing times
Remove your charity from the charities register after you've closed (or 'dissolved') it.
When an ISA can be closed, and how to void or repair an ISA if you're an ISA manager.
Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff
How to buy or acquire the assets of a dissolved company - how and when you can claim money or property, who to contact and the forms you need
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