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Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.
How to access and manage your Companies House credit account using our online eBilling service.
How to remove information that should never have been delivered to Companies House.
How to remove an overseas entity's registration from the Register of Overseas Entities.
Registration and filing obligations of an overseas company that opens an establishment in the UK.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
A list of overseas company registries.
Technical specifications for developing software to send information to Companies House digitally.
How we help users who need assistance because of a disability or health condition.
Information about changes that UK companies need to file with Companies House and the rules and requirements on how to submit them.
A list of all the fees Companies House charges, and how we determine these fees.
How a dissolved company can be restored to the register of companies.
How to protect your personal information from the public, if you are at serious risk as a beneficial owner, managing officer or a trust member of an overseas entity.
Our standard list of nationalities and countries.
Rules outlining the form, manner of delivery and method of authentication for documents delivered to Companies House in electronic or paper format.
Overview of insolvency and liquidation proceedings and the documents you must send to Companies House.
How to request and use agent assurance codes if you are a UK-regulated agent carrying out verification checks on an overseas entity, and its beneficial owners and managing officers.
What the registrar's powers are, and how and when they work.
How to apply for breathing space to consider a rescue plan for your company, under measures to support companies and other types of business in financial difficulty.
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