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How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
A limited company is legally separate from the people who own it. A…
You must choose a name for your business if you’re setting up a private…
You must provide a registered office address and email address when you…
Your company must have at least one director. Directors are legally…
Most limited companies are ‘limited by shares’. This means they’re owned…
When you register your company you need: a ‘memorandum of association’ - a…
Use this service to register your company with Companies House. You will…
You can add Corporation Tax services to your business tax account if you…
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
What private maritime security companies (PMSCs) with a trade control licence must do when their circumstances change like leaving the sector or merging.
Investigates the relationship between family control and firm organization and performance in the manufacturing sector
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Find out about group and divisional VAT registration and the forms you should use to apply.
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