“A company must at all times have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed”. – Part 6,s86 of the Companies Act, 2006. Any company (public or limited), or Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) in England and Wales, must supply a registered office address. This is the official location of a company […]
Answer these questions honestly. Do you spend too much time looking for effective ways of managing your company? Do you micromanage or struggle to keep up with new rules and regulations? If so, it might be time to bring in third-party help. Outsourcing company secretarial services can be a cost-effective way of streamlining your business […]
A share certificate is a legal instrument that acts as proof of purchase for shareholders. The certificate can be authenticated by the directors’ signatures or even by a branded company seal.
Following on from our guide to forming a UK company, this explanatory guide will go into more depth about limited company shares. In basic terms, a share represents a portion of a company. To form a limited company, there must be at least one share issued and how much this share is worth in monetary […]
This guide will answer pertinent questions around company formation, including, ‘What types of companies are there?’, ‘How to form a UK company’ and ‘What is the role of Companies House?’. A British company is a legal entity in its own right, a classification which distinguishes it from the people that own, run or work for […]
As part of our providing advisory support to assist AIM Company compliance with QCA Corporate Governance Code we are providing support in the facilitation of internal Board Evaluations. The QCA Code on Board Evaluations The QCA Code explains the rationale of an effective Board and the benefits of a Board evaluation process as follows: MAINTAIN […]
Making Tax Digital (MTD) has been active since the 1st April 2019, however it is still on many people’s minds. On the 3rd April, two days after the Making Tax Digital deadline, only 4% of the country’s businesses mandated to join had signed up. In addition to this, just 2% of accounting firms had registered […]
AGM season is on us and, yet again, the notice period is the subject of many debates. The issue is that the ambiguous language of the Companies Act 2006 makes computing notice periods for annual general meetings problematic. The objective here is to clarify and provide a standard for the date of the notice. The […]
From April 2020 the Employment Allowance is changing, restricting it to smaller companies who have a National Insurance contribution (NIC) bill of below £100,000 in the previous tax year. What is the Employment Allowance? The Employment Allowance is an annual amount that is currently available to all businesses and charities (with some exclusions) to offset […]
What are the most recent changes to the minimum pension contributions? As of 6th April 2019 the minimum contribution to an employee’s pension scheme has risen from 5%, with at least 2% from the employer, to 8%, with at least 3% from the employer. This is a substantial increase and hence will have a notable […]
