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This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Find out how the scheme works, including issuing shares and raising money, and how to submit your compliance statement.
Acting as an attorney - duties, including registering a lasting power, starting to act, gifting, handling disputes and replacement attorney responsibilities.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
If your company wishes to use a venture capital scheme to encourage investment, it must meet the permanent establishment condition.
Find out how to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are over £20 million.
How to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are between £1.5 million and £20 million.
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.
Share a summary of a lasting power of attorney (LPA) with an organisation, add an LPA summary, keep track of which organisations can view an LPA summary.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Find out about the long-term effects some people can have after having COVID-19.
How to put your limited company or limited liability partnership into administration - what administration is, appointing an administrator, when administration ends
We help UK life sciences companies to do business overseas and support foreign life sciences companies to invest in the UK.
Rules and requirements on filing annual returns, annual accounts and company changes that must be filed by UK registered companies.
How to buy or acquire the assets of a dissolved company - how and when you can claim money or property, who to contact and the forms you need
Detailed information about the Insolvency Service’s investigation and enforcement work, how we achieve our outcomes and how to complain about misconduct.
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