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Find out what to do if you've just registered a limited company - rules to follow, financial support and what to register for.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Tell us about exceptional circumstances you want us to consider before we take enforcement action for overdue filings.
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
Complain about or report company for breaking the law or committing fraud, running scams, or selling faulty products of services
Application to register (incorporate) a private or public company within the UK.
Find software to file company accounts for private limited companies, limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and charities.
Use this form to apply, as an individual, to remove your personal details from the public Companies House register.
Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms
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.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator.
Use this form to give notice of shares allotted following incorporation. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
Find software to file incorporations (registering a new company), changes to company details (such as directors and company secretaries) and mortgages and loan guarantees.
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Use this form to give notice of an individual with significant control.
Use this form to register a statement of satisfaction in full or in part of a mortgage or charge against a company.
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