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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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Find out more about what you need to consider when starting a Community Interest Company
Guidance on the use of the sensitive words accreditation, accredit, accredited and accrediting, in a company, Limited Liability Partnership or business name.
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
Case studies explaining how companies signed up to the Think, Act, Report campaign are improving gender equality in the workplace.
If your company isn’t a charity you need Charity Commission permission to use the words ‘charity’, ‘charity’s’, ‘charities’ or ‘charitable’ (known as sensitive words) in its name.
This page provides support for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on bidding for government contracts.
Non-resident businesses can get advice on how UK tax law applies using HMRC's Inward Investment Support service.
How to set up a public service mutual and 'spin out' of a public service organisation.
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
A speech delivered by Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the CMA, to the GCR Live: Law Leaders Global 2024 conference.
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
Think carefully before you borrow money for your company.
The Insolvency and Companies List was formerly known as the Companies Court. We handle cases relating to the insolvency of companies, including: petitions to wind up a company applications to unfreeze bank accounts or challenge a winding up petition applications...
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