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Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
A limited company is a company ‘limited by shares’ or ‘limited by…
You must choose a name for your business if you’re setting up a private…
You must provide a registered office address and email address when you…
Your company must have at least one director. Directors are legally…
Most limited companies are ‘limited by shares’. This means they’re owned…
When you register your company you need: a ‘memorandum of association’ - a…
Use this service to register your company with Companies House. You will…
Most companies register for Corporation Tax and PAYE as an employer at the…
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
As a director of a limited company, you must: follow the company’s rules,…
How you take money out of the company depends on what it’s for and how…
You must report certain changes to Companies House. Changing your…
You must keep: records about the company itself financial and accounting…
You need to check that the information Companies House has about your…
Signs You must display a sign showing your company name at your registered…
Types of model articles of association a limited company can have, including older versions of Table A from previous company legislation.
Find out about gaining approval for a fair partial exemption special method if you deal with partial exemption for insurers.
How to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are between £1.5 million and £20 million.
How to access public data from the Companies House register using our data products.
ISSUES UNDER THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC LIMITED-LIABILITY COMPANY (EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT) REGULATIONS ON WHICH APPLICATIONS OR COMPLAINTS CAN BE MADE TO THE CAC
Find out how to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are over £20 million.
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
Find out about the calculation of the company car benefit charge.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
What qualifies as ordinary commuting and private travel for tax purposes.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to send information to Companies House through our extensible markup language (XML) schemas, by purchasing software or developing your own.
Find out how to claim input tax on funded pension scheme expenditure for both employers and trustees.
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
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