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Find a licensed insolvency practitioner in your area.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
How to apply for bankruptcy online: how much it costs, get help paying the fee, what you’ll need
What Gift Aid is, who can claim, what donations are eligible for Gift Aid, Gift Aid declarations for your charity or community amateur sports club (CASC), how to claim
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work.
Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline
If you provide company cars to your employees, use form P46 (Car) to tell HMRC
Restore a company to the Company Register - administrative restoration, deadlines, fees and forms
What to do if your vehicle, vehicle part or accessory is recalled, has a registered fault and how to report serious safety defect you find
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
Get ready to employ someone - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance.
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
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Register a mortgage or charge at Companies House that was created or evidenced by an instrument on or after 6 April 2013.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies (CIC Regulator)'s form for applying to form a community interest company.
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)
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