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How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
How to close a charity, and what to tell the Charity Commission when you have closed the charity.
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
When an ISA can be closed, and how to void or repair an ISA if you're an ISA manager.
Stopping self-employment, winding up or liquidating a limited company
Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff
Statistics on new individual insolvencies in England and Wales, and related statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland
If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Find out how to account for VAT and who to contact if you're an insolvency practitioner and you're appointed over insolvent VAT-registered businesses.
The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad.
Guidance on what to do if your application for an account is declined or if your account is closing because you are in the UK illegally.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
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
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
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