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After the end of its financial year, a private limited company must prepare full annual accounts and a company tax return. The deadline for filing the first set of accounts with Companies House is 21 months after the date the company was registered
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Any property, cash and other asset owned by a company when it is dissolved automatically passes to the Crown as ownerless property. This process is known as ‘bona vacantia’ which literally means vacant goods. The bodies that deal with bona vacantia
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A new one-stop service to register a company and register for tax at the same time has been used by more than 200,000 businesses since it was introduced. The introduction of the Streamlined Company Registration Service was announced as part of the
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As well as filing accounts with Companies House, there is a requirement to check that the information Companies House stores about your company is correct every year. This is facilitated by the filing of an annual company confirmation statement. The
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