Professional company registration and secretarial services tariff

Forming and registering your company

Your new company formation on-line

VAT Registration and general advice.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

Registered office
Acting as the company registered office for a year or part-year.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

More-specialized companies and LLP

LLP formation - Limited Liability Partnership formation

Tariff £80.00 Filing Fees £20.00 VAT £20.00 = Total £120.00

Guarantee formation - Company limited by guarantee formation.

Tariff £85.00 Filing Fees £15.00 VAT £20.00 = Total £120.00

CIC formation - Community interest company formation.

Tariff £85.00 Filing Fees £35.00 VAT £24.00 = Total £144.00

Business getting started

VAT Registration and general advice.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

Transfer VAT number from a previous company or business.

Tariff £ no charge in conjunction with a new VAT registration.

Flat rate VAT scheme advice and application

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00
Tariff £ no charge in conjunction with a new VAT registration.

Payroll PAYE scheme setup.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

CIS scheme setup construction industry subcontractors deduction scheme;
no additional charge if you have a PAYE scheme. The schemes are the same.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

CIS Gross payment tax treatment.
Application subject to being able to demonstrate
£30,000 labour sales per relevant person.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

IR35
Annual calculations and returns.
Per deemed employee, normally a director.

Tariff £175.00 VAT £30.00 = Total £210.00

Change company name see our guidance about company names

Tariff £90.00 Filing Fees £10.00 VAT £18.00 = Total £118.00

Company Seal

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

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Your company during the year

Companies House
Companies House Annual Return
Form CS01 (AR01) (363) Confirmation statement

Tariff £35.00 Filing Fees £13.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £55.00

CS01 Update
Updating information for companies registered before 06/04/2016 from AR01 information to CS01 information
including People with significant control PSC

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

about People with significant control PSC's

Anti Money Laundering

Form PSC01 Notice of individual person with significant control (PSC)
Real time information RTI for Persons with significant control PSC’s – The European Union Fourth Anti Money Laundering directive From 26 June 2017
Companies are required to register changes in PSC's with Companies House on forms PSC01 to PSC09.

First condition holds, directly or indirectly, more than 25% of the shares in company.
Second condition holds, directly or indirectly, more than 25% of the voting rights in company.
Third condition holds the right, directly or indirectly, to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors of company.
Fourth condition has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, significant influence or control over the company even if not a shareholder or director.
Fifth condition - also applies to trusts and partnerships which meet any of the other four conditions.

about Companies House PSC Register details

Contacting your PSC

Directors must try to identify and contact anyone who could be a PSC of the company.
Refusing to provide PSC information is a criminal offence, and you can apply restrictions on their shares or voting rights following repeated failure to respond.

PSC Changes

The most usual changes to PSC details

Shareholders:
Changes in shareholder address and basic details etc.
New shareholder owning more than 25% of the share capital or more than 25% of the voting rights.
Bands:
Over 25% up to (and including) 50%.
More than 50% and less than 75%.
75% or more.
Changes in the percentage ownership band of an existing shareholder.
Where there are no shares:
Company limited by guarantee.
Limited liability partnership.
The same principles apply according to voting rights.
Also applicable to a person who:
Holds the right, directly or indirectly, to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors.
Has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, significant influence or control over the company.
Significant influence or control provisions mean that related parties share capital and voting rights need to be agregated for PSC reporting.
Also applicable to individuals with control over shares and voting rights owned by trusts.
Also applicable to individuals with control over shares and voting rights owned by partnerships or other firms.
Meets one or more: Where more than one category applies to an individual, include all for that individual.

Frequently used PSC forms

The forms that most frequently apply:

File form PSC01 for new individual PSC.
File form PSC04 for change of individual's details.
File form PSC07 for ceasing to be a PSC - All entities.
See full list of PSC forms below.

When Joint Shareholders are PSC's

Each joint shareholder is taken to hold the entire shareholding in their own right for PSC purposes.
So where joint holdings apply, the total of PSC's may exceed 100%. This is correct according to the legislation.

When a trust is a PSC

Each trustee is taken to hold the entire shareholding in their own right for PSC purposes.
So where trustee holdings apply, the total of PSC's may exceed 100%. This is correct according to the legislation.

PSC's when the company is a Charity

Limited by guarantee.
Charity-owned trading subsidiaries.
Significant influence or control could apply to major donors, influential advisors, or founders.

Not PSC's

Significant influence or control excludes:
Directors - acting as employees; who hold less than 25% of shares or voting rights.
Routine professional advisers.
Lenders.
Customers.
Suppliers.

Time to notify changes in PSC's

Companies have 14 days, after any change, to update their PSC register and
An additional 14 days to submit the information to Companies House.
Criminal proceedings could result from the non submission or incorrect completion.
Penalties may be fines; custodial sentences are possible.

PSC Beneficial owners may NOT be

Foreign companies unless the foreign company is listed on a stock exchange equivalent to the London Stock Exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange and other well-known exchanges.
Companies with tax haven addresses.

PSC forms:

If you have elected to keep PSC register information on the public register the full date of birth is available for public inspection.
Form PSC01 New individual PSC
Form PSC02 and PSC03 Equivalent forms for significant control by other entities whether or not you have elected to keep PSC register information on the public register.
Form PSC04, PSC05 and PSC06 New individual PSC. Change details forms: Individual, Relevant Legal Entity RLE or Other registerable person ORP, respectively.
Form PSC07 Ceasing to have significant control form. Same form for Individual, Relevant Legal Entity RLE or Other registerable person ORP.
Form PSC08 and PSC09 Notification of PSC statements indicating that a company has taken reasonable steps to find out if there is anyone who is a registrable person or a registrable relevant legal entity (RLE), and if so, to identify them.

Persons of significant control (PSC's) are registrable persons

Companies must identify and report on Persons of significant control (PSC's)

There are Tick boxes on Form PSC08 to notify Companies House that:
☐ There is no registrable person.
☐ The company has not yet completed taking reasonable steps to find out if there is anyone who is a registrable person.
☐ There is an identified registrable person for whom details have not been provided.
☐ Section 790D Notice From: The company To: A 'new' registrable person:- Information has been requested from the person but has not been provided by them.
☐ Section 790E Notice From: The company To: An existing registrable person:- Information of change(s) has been requested from the person but has not been provided by them.

There are Tick boxes on Form PSC09 to amend or withdraw previous notifications on Form PSC08.

PSC forms PSC01 to PSC09

Tariff per form £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

about PSC forms

Year end
Form AA01 (225) Change of accounting reference date.

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

Registered office change
Form AD01 (287) Notice of change in situation of registered office.

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

Registered office
Acting as the company registered office for a year or part-year.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

Registered office change to our office

Tariff £ no charge for the change but annual fee as above.

Directors and Secretaries forms
Form CH01 Change the details of a director and other forms as applicable (288a,b,c): Appointment, resignation, change of particulars of director or secretary.

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

Directors - combined changes when the director is also a Person with significant control PSC. Two forms.
Form CH01 Change of director’s details
Form PSC04 Change of details of individual person with significant control

Tariff £50.00 VAT £10.00 = Total £60.00

Directors - combined changes when changing both the home address and service address at the same time. Two forms.
Add for the additional address

Tariff £25.00 VAT £5.00 = Total £30.00

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Shareholders
New shares - Form SH01 (88 (2)) Return of allotments of shares.

Tariff £65.00 VAT £13.00 = Total £78.00

Share transfers

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00
plus Stamp duty where applicable

VAT
VAT change of particulars - Name, address, VAT quarter and other

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

VAT nil return

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

Application to cancel your VAT Registration

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

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Dormant company

Dormant company accounts and Corporation Tax return.

Tariff £150.00 VAT £30.00 = Total £180.00

Striking off your company
Form DS01 (652a) Striking off application by a company

Tariff £35.00 Filing Fees £10.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £52.00

about Striking off your company

You sign a declaration:
I/We as director(s) / the majority of directors apply for this company to be struck off the Register and declare that:
i) none of the circumstances described in section 1004 or 1005 of the Companies Act 2006 (being circumstances in which the directors would otherwise be prohibited under those sections from making an application) exists in relation to the company and
ii) we have complied with the requirements of sections 1006 and 1007 of the Act and have given/will give copies of the application to the people listed in those sections as required.
The legislation is quite detailed; Companies Act 2006. Please refer to the following links:
Prohibited:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1004 No trading or change of name in the past three months.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1005 No insolvency activity.

Complied with:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1006 Must notify creditors and other interested parties.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1007 Must notify anyone who becomes a creditor or other interested party after the application is made.

Companies House advertise the application for striking off in the London Gazette - an official notices newspaper.
If there are no objections, the company is stuck off after ten weeks.
The most likely objectors are H M Revenue & Customs when Corporation Tax returns or VAT returns are not up to date or there are payments outstanding.
Quite often outstanding returns do not give rise to futher tax but they have to be filed before striking off can proceed without objection.
When striking off is suspended, the next action by Companies House could be prosecution of the directors for late filing.
Company filing history at Companies House and banking implications
Apperaing on the company's filing history:
The application for striking off: "Application to strike the company off the register"
The first London Gazette entry advertising the application: "First Gazette notice for voluntary strike-off"
Your bank may pick this up.
The second London Gazette entry advertising the final striking off: "Final Gazette dissolved via voluntary strike-off"
This is about twelve weeks after the first London Gazette entry.
Your bank will certainly pick this up and freeze any company bank account which may still be open and
any funds will be Bona Vacantia, vacant goods, ownerless property and will not be available to withdraw.

Tax on funds withdrawn on striking off:
Up to £25,000 is treated as Capital Gains.
Any balance is taxed as income.

Struck off company

Restoring a struck off company
Subject to bringing Companies House filing up to date.

Tariff £150.00 Filing Fees £179.00 VAT £30.00 = Total £359.00
Plus any applicable penalties.

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General

Setting up your existing company on our Company Secretarial system using the company authentication code.
Companies House - download current details.
No charge where we have done the formation and registration.
Ready to make required amendments.

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

Obtaining the company authentication code; mailed to the registered office from Companies House.

Tariff £35.00 VAT £7.00 = Total £42.00

Downloading documents from Companies House

Tariff £5.00 download fee £1.00 VAT £1.00 = Total £7.00

Other matters by quotation.

Terms and conditions:
All company accounting, taxation and secretarial services are undertaken on behalf of the directors and secretary on the basis that the company officers will pay our fees if they are not paid by the company on the due date. Efiling forms are prepared from your verbal or written instructions and are filed on the basis of your electronic signature which we apply on your behalf. We accept Visa, Master Card and American Express. Rates, terms and conditions are subject to change without notice 16-September-2015.