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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.
Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.
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
Use this form to complete your annual report, to tell the Office of the Public Guardian about the decisions you’ve made for the person you’re a guardian for.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
This guidance provides information on COVID-19 in homelessness, domestic abuse refuge, respite room and asylum seeker accommodation settings.
Use this form to give notice of ceasing to be an individual person with significant control, relevant legal entity or other registrable person.
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.
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 the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
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.
When HMRC will issue a joint and several liability notice to individuals who have been involved with companies which have become insolvent and have a tax liability with HMRC.
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