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Find out what to do if you've just registered a limited company - rules to follow, financial support and what to register for.
Use the online forms service or the postal form if your organisation is already registered and you need to tell HMRC about significant changes to your organisation including authorising an agent.
Use this form to give notice of shares allotted following incorporation. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
Find HMRC-recognised payroll software to manage your Real Time Information (RTI) PAYE payments and deductions.
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
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 a licensed insolvency practitioner in your area.
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
Find out about your business rates bill, business rate relief or pay your bill through your local council
Use this form to change the details of an individual who is a director.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments
The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies (CIC Regulator)'s form for applying to form a community interest company.
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