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Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept
A guide to starting and growing a business from home.
How to register for VAT, change your details, cancel your registration, register for VAT in EU countries.
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Paper forms that a limited company can file with Companies House.
Includes registering, setting up, company accounts and tax returns
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Workplace pensions - what employers have to do, automatic enrolment, ongoing duties, stakeholder pensions
You can ask Companies House to keep your address out of the company records people can search - who can apply, forms, when your address will be removed from the records
How to register a group of companies, company divisions, joint business ventures and business units for VAT and what to do if they change after registration.
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
Find out how the scheme works, including issuing shares and raising money, and how to submit your compliance statement.
Running a business from home - insurance, business rates, expenses, tax allowances
How to send your information to Companies House using our online services.
Use Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) form CIS305 to register your company as a subcontractor, or apply for gross payment status at the same time.
You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
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