Companies House Archive
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The Most Popular Months for Company Formations
Posted on December 19, 2012 | No CommentsJanuary is traditionally quite a busy month for company formation agents. Lots of people make a New Year’s Resolution to finally start that company they have been talking about for years. We therefore expect to have a bit of a rush of new Companies being... -
Top 5 Reasons Why Company Accounts are Rejected
Posted on August 20, 2012 | 2 CommentsCompanies House have released figures showing that they now reject 11.1% of company accounts. Using the Companies House statistics for July 2012 that means over 300,000 companies have had their accounts rejected so far this year. If acceptable accounts are not received on time then... -
Getting Away with it: Will Companies House Notice if You Fail to File Documents?
Posted on August 6, 2012 | No CommentsMany people don’t realise that when they create a limited company they are taking on a range of duties which have to be completed every year. Many more people fail to realise that the penalty for not meeting these requirements is prosecution. On forming a... -
How do you dissolve a company?
Posted on July 18, 2012 | 1 CommentIt is an unfortunate fact of life that about 1 in 3 new businesses fail in their first couple of years. This is part of the risk of starting your own business. It is something that you can learn from so that you don’t have... -
What is a limited company?
Posted on July 9, 2012 | No CommentsDepending on whose figures you believe there are anywhere between 1.3 and 2.5 million limited companies in the UK. This makes Limited Companies one of the most common ways to run a business. In fact there are several forms of limited companies. These include Public... -
What is a Dormant Company?
Posted on May 31, 2012 | No CommentsFigures from Companies House show that about 18.5% of companies in Great Britain do not do any business all year. These are classed as Dormant Companies. A dormant company is defined as having no ‘significant accounting transactions’ during a financial year. Even though a company... -
A Company is for Life not Just for Christmas
Posted on May 29, 2012 | No CommentsAs we discussed in our last blog post, the requirements around a limited company do not end once the company has been formed. As well as having the company’s statutory registers it is essential to keep a range of other documents up to date. Some... -
Anger At Companies House Late Filing Penalties
Posted on February 2, 2011 | No CommentsAccording to some reports, Companies House have received just over 1,700 complaints and appeals from limited companies hit by late filing penalties. Due to the recent heavy snowfall and problems with Royal Mail deliveries, company accounts and annual returns failed to reach Companies House by... -
Company Formation Up 12% In November 2010
Posted on December 10, 2010 | No CommentsOnce again the Companies House registration statistics show that the number of Company Formations has risen in 2010. Even in the last months of this year, the figures look promising and show that we might finally be coming out of the recession with a healthy... -
Company Formation Rates Increase As Other Business Start-Ups Drop
Posted on September 28, 2010 | No CommentsInteresting figures released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (“Number of UK Businesses Down”) show that there has been a marked decrease in the number of UK businesses in 2010. Gauged by the number of businesses registering for PAYE and completing a VAT Registration...
