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Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
How to file company information - including directors, registered office and shareholders in your confirmation statement (previously AR01 annual return)
How to file your company annual accounts with Companies House
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept
How to set up a limited company, appoint directors and shareholders or guarantors, and register for tax.
File your Company Tax Return with HMRC, and your company accounts with Companies House
Use this service to apply to strike off a company from the Companies House register. It costs £33 to apply online, or £44 for a paper application.
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 close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
Contact Companies House to register your limited company, file returns and accounts
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Check if someone is disqualified from being a company director, when their disqualification starts and ends, why they were disqualified
Use the Companies House online service to change your company's registered office address.
Set up and run a business partnership - naming a partnership, registering with HMRC, partnership tax returns and legal responsibilities
Use this form to terminate the appointment of an individual or corporate director.
What to do if you’re a company director or an accountant who has to pay a penalty to Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives
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
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