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Your and your company's responsibilities - repaying director's loans, interest, tax on loans, reporting to HM Revenue and Customs
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
Reusing a company name is prohibited and subject to specific restrictions.
Use this form to appoint an individual person as a company director.
Check if someone is disqualified from being a company director, when their disqualification starts and ends, why they were disqualified
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Help and guidance for limited company directors.
Information about director's loans.
Report a disqualified director for working illegally to The Insolvency Service - complain using the online form
Think carefully before you borrow money for your company.
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
What you can do to avoid insolvency.
Use this form to terminate the appointment of an individual or corporate director.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides lists of English-speaking funeral directors abroad to help British nationals find the support they need.
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
Use this form to correct a director's date of birth if it was incorrectly stated when the company was incorporated.
Regional directors work locally across children’s social care, SEND, schools and area-based programmes to improve outcomes for children, families and learners. Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors is part of the Department for Education .
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