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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.
How to order certified copies of certificates and documents held on the Companies House register.
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
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...
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
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 a group of companies, company divisions, joint business ventures and business units for VAT and what to do if they change after registration.
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Find out how to work out your annual alcohol production if you’re part of a group, or you merge with, or separate from another business.
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
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.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
Find out if a business is, or has been, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide claims management services
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
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
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