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Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
When your limited company doesn't have to get its accounts audited, what you need to put on your accounts if you don't and what to do if shareholders ask for an audit
Use this form if your confirmation date is 4 March 2024 or earlier, to confirm that the company's details are up to date.
Complain about or report company for breaking the law or committing fraud, running scams, or selling faulty products of services
Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms
Use this form to apply to change a company’s registered office address, or a person's service address or principal office address.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
How to appeal a penalty if you’re a company director or an accountant who has received a penalty from Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
Unincorporated associations are organisations set up through an agreement between a group of people who come together for a reason other than to make a profit
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
Use this form to give notice of shares allotted following incorporation. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
Application to register (incorporate) a private or public company within the UK.
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