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Check if your company can pay a reduced rate of 10% Corporate Tax if it exploits patented inventions and innovations.
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
Your limited company usually pays Corporation Tax on the profit…
The gain is usually the difference between what you paid for the asset and…
‘Intangible assets’ include intellectual property and business reputation…
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 work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are between £1.5 million and £20 million.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
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.
When HMRC will issue a joint and several liability notice to individuals who have been involved with companies which have become insolvent and have a tax liability with HMRC.
Find out how to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are over £20 million.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
What private maritime security companies (PMSCs) with a trade control licence must do when their circumstances change like leaving the sector or merging.
How to claim relief on the transfer of assets when your company changes from a private limited company to a sole trader or partnership owned business.
Find out how the scheme works, including issuing shares and raising money, and how to submit your compliance statement.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Your responsibilities as a company director after your company has been liquidated - helping the official receiver, settling debts, what you can and cannot do.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
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