Forming the right vehicle
What is being formed, and why, has consequences for tax, for liability and for who can sign what. It is cheaper to decide before incorporation than to restructure after it.
Compliance & Outsourcing
Corporate Compliance
Incorporation and the filings that follow it — the recurring corporate work that keeps an entity in good standing and its records able to answer a question.
- New companies
- Existing private limited companies
- Groups adding a subsidiary
- Companies changing directors or capital
- Businesses maintaining a registered office
What we are usually called about
The questions this work arrives with
None of these is unusual and none of them is a failing. They are what happens when a business grows faster than the records, the systems and the filings that describe it.
Filings that lapse quietly
Statutory filings are routine until one is missed, and the consequence usually surfaces when a bank, a lender or a tender asks for something the record cannot produce.
Registers nobody maintains
Statutory registers, minutes and resolutions kept as a folder rather than as a record, and then reconstructed under pressure by whoever is available.
Changes to the company
Directors, shareholding, registered office, capital and objects each have their own process, and doing them in the wrong order creates work rather than saving it.
Ownership information
Ownership has to be recorded and kept current, and what is recorded has to agree with what has been filed and stated elsewhere.
How the work runs
What an engagement looks like
Scope and fees are agreed in advance and in writing, before any of this starts. Where a step turns out not to be needed, it is dropped rather than billed.
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Structure
Agreeing what is being formed and why, before a name is reserved or a document is drafted.
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Incorporation
Name, constitutional documents, registration, and the first set of statutory records opened properly.
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03
Annual cycle
The recurring filings and the calendar they sit on, maintained as a routine rather than remembered.
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Events
Changes to directors, capital, office or constitution, prepared and filed as they happen instead of in a batch.
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Records
Registers, minutes and resolutions kept current, so that a certificate or an extract can be produced when somebody asks for one.
Scope
What an engagement can cover
A list of what the work can include, not a package. What is actually needed is settled after the first conversation and written into the engagement letter.
- Company incorporation, including name reservation and constitutional documents
- Annual and event-based statutory filings
- Maintenance of statutory registers, minutes and resolutions
- Changes to directors, shareholding, capital and registered office
- Ownership records and the declarations that go with them
- Support through winding up or strike-off
Who this is for
Where this work usually comes from
Retail
Chains running an ERP and a point of sale, where stock, margin and every invoice are now reported in real time.
Pharmaceutical
Manufacture and distribution sold through a trade that settles half its margin outside the invoice — in bonus stock, credit terms, discounts and credit notes.
Alongside this
What this work usually sits next to
One practice handles all of it, so nobody is coordinating between a systems consultant, a tax adviser and a bookkeeper.
Compliance & Outsourcing
Business Process Outsourcing
Bookkeeping, payroll, returns and month-end close
Tax
Income Tax
Returns, notices, audits and appeals
Systems & Assurance
Statutory Audit
Companies Act 2017 audits