Company Formations - The Book-keepers Forum

Donna CBK · Senior Member

Company Formations

gbm · Guru

Donna, this sounds interesting. Only have about a dozen or so incorporations a year, but will keep your details for the next one!

Donna CBK · Senior Member

Thank you Nick, much appreciated. Any extra's coming through are worth having, and if proves useful to you, please feel free to spread the word.

factoringhelpline · Newbie

do you by any chance know how to get a struck off company back on the register

gbm · Guru

Hi Jeffrey,

I don't have any direct experience of this, but think it can be done through a solicitor. Just google 'company restorations'.

Unless, of course, someone can recommend a company that they've used?

StevieB · Member

Hi there

I am from First Corporate, see above ad, we can assist with restorations and hopefully more cost effective than solicitors

there are two methods, administrative or court procedure. Under the new act you can do an administrative restoration so long as the company has been struck off by companies house and NOT the company. This involves sending forms to the treasury solicitor and liaising between the treasury solicitor and companies house. The fees are £180 plus vat our fee and £79 duty fees to the treasury solicitor and £100 to companies house. The downside is if the company has been struck off for lack of filing accounts etc these also have to be filed and all penalties paid. This can work out quite expensive depending on the penalties if any. You must restore to trade again you cannot restore just to release an asset. Timescale roughly 5-6 weeks

The other route is restoration through the court where you can restore to trade as above or you can restore the company just to release any assets, bank money etc. With the latter, you do not have to update the accounts or AR or pay any penalties to CH. Their is a lot of going between CH, Treasury solicitor and courts, our fee is £600 plus vat plus £300 treasury solicitors fee and £130 court fee, this can take 3-4 months depending on the courts and how quick the government bodies act, there is no fast track.

if you need any further info please ring my colleague Graham Stephens who specialises in this area on 02920 229080, hope this helps

regards

Steve

Flex Accounting Services · Senior Member

I have a very similar question on this please, firstly though thanks Donna will definately keep your details on the company formations as I've done a few quite recently. Your prices and turnaround are very impressive.

Does anyone have any advice regarding the following - if a ltd company has been resolved and then the name is available for you to buy, whats the situation when you have then got the ltd company name but the 'old' company still uses their website in the company name ? Hope that makes sense ??!!

StevieB · Member

Hi there

when a company is dissolved, the name does become available for registration again. Its always worth checking why the company was dissolved, as you dont want any confusion with any creditors of the old company knocking on your door thinking that you and the old company are one and the same.

Regarding the web site there is not a lot you can do as similar to trading names you cannot prevent them using the name as a domain name or a trading name unless you take action through the courts which may or may not be successful. The same applies with trademarks although there are rules and a separate registry in this respect where complaints can be made. hope this helps

regards

steve blackmore

first corporate

HendyPhilhendy · Senior Member

Just a quick general question - what is the point of a bound memo and arts and printed certificate on posh paper? What value does it really add?

Flex Accounting Services · Senior Member

Thanks for your response Steve and it all makes sense. I just wonder why a company would be dissolved but they would keep the domain name as they cant carry on trading as this name now as someone else has bought it.

attilabenko · Guru

Hi Beverley,

I think often a company pay for domain and all hosting in advance (that is years sometimes as much as 5 yrs), once they stop trading,etc they probably do not care about these things any more and probably the only person who knows what and how was done about the website is one of the first ones who got fired...
Or they might want to trade/form new company under a similar name in the future.
You could probably approach them to buy the domain but often it is not easy to find the right person who is allowed to sell it for you/give permission and than you will have to find other people who know how it was done in the first place, through which company,etc to actually be able to use it.

StevieB · Member

Hi Phil

with reference to bound articles it really is a nicety only, we have clients who are happy to receive e-mailed copies whilst others who prefer bound copies personalised with their logo etc- it doesnt make any difference- I guess it depends if you want to impress your client or not. We have one client who deals with overseas clients so they up the price and tend to get the full pack-deluxe register and all!

with regard to the certificate I believe that there are set rules on the provision of a certificate in that it must be printed on 300gsm (i think) buff card. This comes from the registrar and whilst some banks and authoritys may accept photocopies the correct and legal method is the card version, otherwise you could quite easily make your own!- there is also a difference between the original cert which comes from CH or an agent and whats on the public record as the public record refers to the certificate as being a copy. so really there should only be one original.

hope this helps

kind regards

steve

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