Guidance and regulation

Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing designated members and registering with Companies House.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 1 May 2024

How to account for VAT if you buy in and resell travel facilities as a principal or undisclosed agent.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 18 April 2024

Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and 1 others
• Updated: 26 March 2015

How to apply for a waiver letter when you are restoring a company using administrative restoration.

• From: Bona Vacantia and 1 others
• Updated: 22 March 2024

How to register a new charge at Companies House, or tell us about any you've paid off.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 1 May 2024

How a late filing penalty will be imposed if your company or LLP's accounts are not filed on time, and how to appeal against a penalty.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 24 July 2023

A list of company formation agents and company secretarial agents you can use to incorporate your company.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 19 February 2024

Register now to find out more about what you need to consider when starting a company.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 23 February 2024

How to charge and account for VAT on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and EU member states (VAT Notice 725).

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 2 May 2024

How to ask Companies House to extend your filing deadline if an unplanned event stops you filing your accounts.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 6 April 2021

Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 1 May 2024

Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 10 April 2024

Supports innovative UK businesses to realise the potential of new technologies, develop ideas and make them a commercial success.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 7 September 2018

How to apply for a discretionary grant where the dissolved company can be restored. (Company has been dissolved for less than six years)

• From: Bona Vacantia and 1 others
• Updated: 22 March 2024

Information about controlled drugs licences for companies that possess, manufacture, produce or supply controlled drugs in England, Wales or Scotland.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 11 January 2024

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.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 1 March 2023

Loans to help small and medium-sized businesses develop and grow.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 27 March 2017

A free-to-access one-week online programme to help you start a business or become self-employed in England.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 16 September 2021

Find out about changes to the rules and extra checks you’ll need to make to see if you can still claim.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 10 February 2020

This guidance is provided to support licensing authorities to carry out their functions under the Licensing Act 2003.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 18 January 2024