Company guidance
Read tips and advice on starting, running and closing a company.
We'll soon be required to verify the identity of anyone who’s submitting information to the public register, including those acting on behalf of a company. Find out how this could affect you.
We're running stronger checks on company names which may give a false or misleading impression to the public. Find out how this may affect you or your company.
The UK Export Academy is a free, online training programme designed to give UK businesses the confidence and know-how to grow sales of their goods and services in global markets. Here are 7 tips to help you grow your business around the world.
The Business Information Providers Association (BIPA) explains how credit reference agencies gather data on businesses, and how filing timely information with Companies House can help your company’s credit report.
The government has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Here are some helpful tips to support your business on the journey to net zero.
The Companies House register contains public information about all companies incorporated in the UK. It also holds information about other types of businesses, such as limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and community interest companies (CICs). The register provides transparency and accountability …
When a company is being removed from the register, you can object online. Find out how we've improved our online objection service.
When the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill is passed, along with many other changes such as identity verification, we expect to gain the power to mandate how companies file their accounts. We will be moving to software-only accounts filing, which will see the removal of all other filing routes for accounts.
The way we operate at Companies House is changing. Since 22 September 2022, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill has been making its way through Parliament. The changes set out in the Bill will improve transparency by making more financial information available to the public. This will help tackle economic crime and provide more information for enforcement agencies. As part of this package of reform, we are streamlining the accounts filing options available to small and micro companies.
As part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, the government will introduce measures to prevent abuse of personal information held on the Companies House register.