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A dissolved company is one that has been removed or ‘struck off’ from the Companies House register. Once dissolved the company is no longer able to trade.

• Updated: 9 January 2025

How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant

How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register

• Overview

  You can close down your limited company by getting it ‘struck off’ the…

• Close down your company

  Before applying to strike off your limited company, you must close it down…

• Apply to strike off

  To apply to strike off your limited company, you must send Companies House…

• Withdraw your application

  You must withdraw your application if your company is no longer eligible…

How a company can be removed from the Companies House register.

• Updated: 18 March 2025

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Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms

Tell Companies House of an order deferring the date of dissolution in members' voluntary liquidation or creditors' voluntary liquidation, for a company registered in Scotland.

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Use this form to tell us when insolvency proceedings are concluded in the UK with consent from all other member state liquidators for the dissolution of the company.