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How to reclaim bona vacantia after a dissolved company is restored to the register.
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address for correspondence, or a shareholder's address. This also applies to LLPs and LLP members.
Business customers can apply to access our electronic services through the portal or Business Gateway.
How to apply for authorisation to become a regulated claims company, understanding the fee structure, and how and when to pay fees.
The Company Names Tribunal practice direction provides the framework for the management of proceedings brought before the Tribunal.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Find out how to apply to operate as a registered consignor of excise goods.
How to apply for the different simplified declarations for exports and what you need for authorisation to use them.
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
Find out if you can apply for advance assurance and what you need, before you claim R&D Corporation Tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Apply for indefinite leave to remain ('settlement') if you have a business, investor or talent visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.
Apply for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa to work for your employer’s UK branch - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Requesting flexible working, how to make an application, what business reasons an employer can give to reject an application and how to appeal.
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