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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Types of model articles of association a limited company can have, including older versions of Table A from previous company legislation.
Find out about mini umbrella company fraud, including checks you should complete and how to report potential fraud.
Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline
Your company’s annual accounts - called ‘statutory accounts’ - are…
You might be able to send simpler (‘abridged’) accounts to Companies House…
You can send amended accounts to Companies House: on paper through filing…
You’ll have to pay penalties if you do not file your accounts and tax…
Information on rules to stop companies from reducing UK tax by diverting profits to tax shelters and preferential regimes, and the exemptions.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
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.
Hear first-hand experiences of the challenges and advantages of owning your own business, with advice on how to get started.
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
ISSUES UNDER THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC LIMITED-LIABILITY COMPANY (EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT) REGULATIONS ON WHICH APPLICATIONS OR COMPLAINTS CAN BE MADE TO THE CAC
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
Membership of the Small Companies project consultative committee
Find out about how and what you’ll be paid and how to check your pay when you’re employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
Guidance on referring cases, buying assets, restoring a dissolved company and applying for a discretionary grant.
We incorporate and dissolve limited companies. We register company information and make it available to the public. Companies House is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade .
How employees, employers and their representatives can resolve disputes under the European Public Limited-Liability Company (Employee Involvement)(Great Britain) Regulations 2009 and The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
How to apply for a discretionary grant where the dissolved company can be restored. (Company has been dissolved for less than six years)
Find news, information and advice from the government on starting or growing your business.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
How EEA companies and groups with a presence in the UK can comply with UK accounting and reporting requirements.
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