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Use this form to change the details of an overseas company.
How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
How to claim relief on the transfer of assets when your company changes from a private limited company to a sole trader or partnership owned business.
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Find out which stocks and shares you can purchase, make or hold in an investor's stocks and shares ISA.
Detailed information about the restrictions on the re-use of company names, when a director can re-use a company name after insolvent liquidation, how to apply for permission to use a prohibited name and how to complain.
Guidance on referring cases, buying assets, restoring a dissolved company and applying for a discretionary grant.
Find out if you can claim Corporation Tax relief on your Research and Development (R&D) project.
Use form OS CH07 to change the details for a person authorised to represent the company in respect of the UK establishment.
How to work out the benefit charge for company vans available for private use.
How to make a negligible value claim for unquoted shares, and how to check if shares previously quoted on the London Stock Exchange now have negligible value.
Submissions related to human medicines need to be submitted directly to the MHRA.
Your responsibilities as a company director after your company has been liquidated - helping the official receiver, settling debts, what you can and cannot do.
What to do if you think you've spotted a scam pretending to be from Companies House, and examples of scam emails, letters and telephone calls.
Use this form to re-register a public company as a private company following a cancellation of shares.
Documents, certificate, letters, and notes available from the British embassy and consulates in the USA.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Guidance for UK companies on winning business from international aid and development projects.
What to do if you're visiting the UK on business - check if you’re eligible, if you need a visa, what visa to apply for, and what to do before you visit.
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