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How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
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.
If you hold certain information, you should contact OFSI as soon as practicable.
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
To offer credit to consumers you must be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and join the Financial Services Register
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
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...
Find out if you need to apply for the fit and proper test and how to do this so that HMRC can register your business.
You can manage your business rates yourself. You do not have to use an agent or ask someone to help you.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
Use form OS CH07 to change the details for a person authorised to represent the company in respect of the UK establishment.
How companies incorporated in the UK, or where the parent company is incorporated in the UK, can comply with UK accounting and reporting requirements.
Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.
How to register a group of companies, company divisions, joint business ventures and business units for VAT and what to do if they change after registration.
Ordinary people mistreated or wronged by big, powerful companies will have a better chance of bringing them to court to access justice, thanks to plans unveiled today (4 March 2024).
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 .
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