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Even the best-run business can face unexpected challenges and solvency issues. It's important you recognise the signs and understand your duties as a director.
Company turnaround or business recovery is a specialised service.
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
Research commissioned by BIS to provide a better understanding of small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs’) use of business support i.e. formal…
This guide explains what the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
Find out how to check your payslip to make sure you are not involved in a tax avoidance scheme, operated by some umbrella companies.
There are a number of ways for companies to recover from financial difficulty. Seek professional advice early to understand your options.
How to protect your company from scams and fraud and how to report it.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Find out about non-compliant umbrella companies using employment agencies to sell their tax avoidance schemes.
Find out about how and what you’ll be paid and how to check your pay when you’re employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Find out what checks you should complete and how to report potential fraud if you’re an agency, employer or worker.
Guidance for non-UK qualified officers on how to apply for, or revalidate a Flag State Endorsement to work on UK-registered commercial vessels.
Guidance for insolvency practitioners to help their clients restructure their company’s finances using a debt restructuring scheme or plan.
When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help
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...
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
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