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Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
When you become the director of a limited company, you should be aware of the legal requirements and duties involved.
As a director, there are general duties you are expected to perform.
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.
Appointing a new director to your limited company.
As company director, you take on many legal requirements and duties. You must know what they are and when you need to complete them.
There are potential consequences for you, the director, if your company suffers insolvency.
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Directors have specific duties if their company becomes insolvent. These still apply if it is trading or if trading has stopped.
Use this online form to appoint an individual as a company director.
If you’ve decided that setting up a company and becoming a director is the best way forward for your business, it’s important to know the rules involved.
Income Tax and National Insurance contributions must be deducted from any wages paid to company employees.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Check if someone is disqualified from being a company director, when their disqualification starts and ends, why they were disqualified
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
Your and your company's responsibilities - repaying director's loans, interest, tax on loans, reporting to HM Revenue and Customs
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