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What to do if you’re a company director or an accountant who has to pay a penalty to Companies House.
Complain about or report company for breaking the law or committing fraud, running scams, or selling faulty products of services
Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
Find software to file company accounts for private limited companies, limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and charities.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
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
Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline
Use this form to give notice of an unconditional change of name by resolution.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
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)
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Use this form to give notice of shares allotted following incorporation. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms
Find software to file incorporations (registering a new company), changes to company details (such as directors and company secretaries) and mortgages and loan guarantees.
File a replacement of a document previously delivered to Companies House that was either not properly delivered or contained unnecessary material.
Use this form to apply, as an individual, to remove your personal details from the public Companies House register.
Application to register (incorporate) a private or public company within the UK.
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.
Register a mortgage or charge at Companies House that was created or evidenced by an instrument on or after 6 April 2013.
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