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Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Find out if your social enterprise meets the conditions of the social investment tax relief (SITR) scheme for investments made on or before 5 April 2023.
ISSUES UNDER THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC LIMITED-LIABILITY COMPANY (EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT) REGULATIONS ON WHICH APPLICATIONS OR COMPLAINTS CAN BE MADE TO THE CAC
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing designated members and registering with Companies House.
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
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
You must register as an overseas company in the UK to do business legally - find out about what you need to do
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
We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...
We are a non-profit making government-owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK. SLC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Education .
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Find out about how and what you’ll be paid and how to check your pay when you’re employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
Guidance on the use of the sensitive words accreditation, accredit, accredited and accrediting, in a company, Limited Liability Partnership or business name.
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)
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Business Asset Disposal Relief (was known as Entrepreneurs' Relief) can reduce your Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell certain business assets or shares - eligibility, deadlines, how to claim
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