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You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
Submit HM Land Registry applications in the portal, reducing errors and requisitions.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Find out about how to register a late Employment Related Securities (ERS) scheme, submit a late Enterprise Management Incentives notification, ERS end of year filing deadline, and updates to the Employee Tax Advantaged Share Scheme User Manual.
Find out how to register for Corporation Tax as a non-resident company if you have sold, gifted or transferred interests in UK property or land.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Find out if you need to register your business if you produce, import, warehouse, sell or deal in motor and heating fuels.
When and how to tell HMRC about new Employment Related Securities (ERS) schemes, or schemes that have ceased.
How to register for VAT, change your details, cancel your registration, register for VAT in EU countries.
Submissions related to human medicines need to be submitted directly to the MHRA.
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
Find out how to become a pension scheme administrator if you're an individual, partnership or business.
Reclaim VAT you've paid on goods and services bought in the UK to use in your business if you’re registered as a business outside the UK.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
Register or renew registration with the Environment Agency to transport, buy, sell or broker waste.
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.
Find out if a business has registered with HMRC under the money laundering regulations and report them if they have not.
Fees for common applications, for example Scale 1 and Scale 2 transactions, charges of registered land, leases, large scale and fixed fee applications.
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