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Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
This director information hub is a home for information and guidance to help current and future directors. It only takes a minute to learn the essentials.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
There are potential consequences for you, the director, if your company suffers insolvency.
Use this online form to appoint an individual as a company director.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Information about director's loans.
As company director, you take on many legal requirements and duties. You must know what they are and when you need to complete them.
Directors have specific duties if their company becomes insolvent. These still apply if it is trading or if trading has stopped.
Your and your company's responsibilities - repaying director's loans, interest, tax on loans, reporting to HM Revenue and Customs
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
When you become the director of a limited company, you should be aware of the legal requirements and duties involved.
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
Appointing a new director to your limited company.
As a director, there are general duties you are expected to perform.
Report a disqualified director for working illegally to The Insolvency Service - complain using the online form
Dividends are payments made to shareholders from company profits after Corporation Tax.
The forms you should use to tell Companies House about changes to the directors of your limited company.
Check if someone is disqualified from being a company director, when their disqualification starts and ends, why they were disqualified
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