Running a company or partnership
Understand your filing requirements for annual returns or accounts with Companies House when running a company or partnership.
Please note: Companies House guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website. We provide links to the key information below.
Filing for your company or partnership
How to file company information - including directors, registered office and shareholders in your AR01 annual return - or file your annual accounts.
How to file annual accounts at Companies House for UK limited liability partnerships (LLPs).
Changes to your company or partnership
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addresses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution.
How a limited liability partnership (LLP) can be removed from and restored to the Companies House register.
Contact Companies House to register your limited company, file returns and accounts.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
How to remove your home address from the public register if you've used it as a service address, a former registered office address or a shareholder's address.
Companies House forms
The paper forms that a limited company can file with Companies House.
Paper forms that a limited liability partnership (LLP) can file with Companies House.
Guidance for running a limited company
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company.
Rules and requirements on filing annual accounts at Companies House for companies registered in the UK.
Information about changes that UK companies need to file with Companies House and the rules and requirements on submitting them.
A condensed list of SIC codes for providing Companies House with a description of your company's nature of business.
How a dissolved company can be restored to the register of companies.
Late filing penalties
How a late filing penalty will be imposed if your company or LLP's accounts are not filed on time, and how to appeal against a penalty.
Partnerships
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing designated members and registering with Companies House.
Rules and requirements for limited liability partnerships registered in the UK.
What you need to do to register a limited partnership.
How a dissolved limited liability partnership (LLP) can be restored to the register of companies.
How a limited liability partnership (LLP) can be removed from the Companies House register.
Verification
When you need to verify depends on your role, and when you started that role.
You need to prove who you are to set up, run, own or control a company in the UK.
How to meet our identity verification standard when verifying someone鈥檚 identity for Companies House.
Understanding your role as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP), also known as a Companies House authorised agent.
How to use our service to register as as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP), also known as a Companies House authorised agent.