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Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
Use this form to make a statement of the company's affairs.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
As a director of a limited company, you must: follow the company’s rules,…
How you take money out of the company depends on what it’s for and how…
You must report certain changes to Companies House. Changing your…
You must use a business bank account for your Limited Company. You must…
You need to check that the information Companies House has about your…
Signs You must display a sign showing your company name at your registered…
Understand the approach HMRC uses to work with large business customers.
Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
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...
Find out about Managed Service Companies and Managed Service Company Providers, including how to identify them and their role in tax avoidance schemes.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
The House of Lords is the second chamber of UK Parliament. It plays a crucial role in examining bills, questioning government action and investigating public policy. Corporate Officers of the House of Lords is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored...
The Business List contains three separate sub-lists: business financial services regulatory and pensions business. Business We deal with a wide range business disputes, often with an international dimension. Frequently these concern a business structure (company, LLP, LP, partnership etc) including:...
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