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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.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
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…
What private maritime security companies (PMSCs) with a trade control licence must do when their circumstances change like leaving the sector or merging.
Investigates the relationship between family control and firm organization and performance in the manufacturing sector
How an obliged entity can make a report if there’s a material discrepancy between the information it holds about a person with significant control (PSC) or registrable beneficial owner of an overseas entity, and the information on the Companies House...
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
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
Find out how the scheme works, including issuing shares and raising money, and how to submit your compliance statement.
Check if your company can pay a reduced rate of 10% Corporate Tax if it exploits patented inventions and innovations.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
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