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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 identify and record the people who own or control your company.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
As a director of a limited company, you must: follow the company’s rules,…
How you take money out of the company depends on what it’s for and how…
You must report certain changes to Companies House. Changing your…
You must keep: records about the company itself financial and accounting…
You need to check that the information Companies House has about your…
Signs You must display a sign showing your company name at your registered…
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
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...
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Check if someone is disqualified from being a company director, when their disqualification starts and ends, why they were disqualified
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
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
When HMRC will issue a joint and several liability notice to individuals involved in tax avoidance or tax evasion when their company has started, or is likely to start, insolvency.
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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