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A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities 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
Letters sent by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to companies about their non-compliance with market investigation orders and undertakings.
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
How to claim a VAT refund in the UK if you're established outside the UK.
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
Find out how to check your payslip to make sure you are not involved in a tax avoidance scheme, operated by some umbrella companies.
Finance companies Satchi Holdings PLC and Hartreel Ltd wound-up after misleading investors and failing to cooperate with an investigation into the firms’ affairs
If you believe you have found a security vulnerability relating to a SLC website, please submit your report to us.
Find out about paying Corporation Tax, instead of Income Tax, if you’re a non-UK resident company with UK property income.
We incorporate and dissolve limited companies. We register company information and make it available to the public. Companies House is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade .
Complain about or report company for breaking the law or committing fraud, running scams, or selling faulty products of services
Find out what to do with your payroll and PAYE reference numbers if your business changes but does not cease to trade.
Find out if a business is, or has been, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide claims management services
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Tough action taken against directors to tackle Covid loan misconduct
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
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