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How you start a limited company.
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
When you set up your limited company, you automatically get different…
File 2 Company Tax Returns if your company started trading on the same day…
Limited companies can be ‘dormant’ for Corporation Tax between setting up…
Find out how to submit brand details to HMRC for Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, Irish Cream, Irish Poteen, Somerset Cider Brandy and Single Malt Welsh Whisky if you're a verified bottler.
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
Reusing a company name is prohibited and subject to specific restrictions.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
If your company wishes to use a venture capital scheme to encourage investment, it must meet the permanent establishment condition.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Decision for applicant DF Capital Bank Limited against registration number 15176697, applicant successful.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
If you’ve decided that setting up a company and becoming a director is the best way forward for your business, it’s important to know the rules involved.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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