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Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
This guide explains what the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
Check if someone is disqualified from being a company director, when their disqualification starts and ends, why they were disqualified
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.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
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 .
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
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...
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
Learn more about your responsibilities as a company director.
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept
Check what you need to do if you own a UK legal services business and are a lawyer with qualifications from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
Application form RQ(Co) to request a restriction by a company.
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
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