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Nationalities and countries for UK company filings

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You would require to disclose your nationality when you become a UK company director.

If there are any changes to your nationality after you set up your UK company, you must notify Companies House of this event. For example, you were originally a Singaporean then you applied to become a British citizen, in this instance, you must file the Companies House form CH01 with Companies House.

Before you file your yearly confirmation statement for your company, check to ensure all directors and people with significant controls (PSCs) nationalities are up to date and correct.

	Country	Nationality
A	Afghanistan	Afghan
	Aland Islands	Finnish
	Albania	Albanian
	Algeria	Algerian
	American Samoa	American
	Andorra	Andorran
	Angola	Angolan
	Anguilla	Anguillan
	Antarctica	(under multinational control)
	Antigua and Barbuda	Citizen of Antigua and Barbuda
	Argentina	Argentine
	Armenia	Armenian
	Aruba	Dutch
	Australia	Australian
	Austria	Austrian
	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani
B	Bahamas	Bahamian
	Bahrain	Bahraini
	Bangladesh	Bangladeshi
	Barbados	Barbadian
	Belarus	Belarusian
	Belgium	Belgian
	Belize	Belizean
	Benin	Beninese
	Bermuda	Bermudian
	Bhutan	Bhutanese
	Bolivia	Bolivian
	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	Dutch
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Botswana	Botswanan
	Bouvet Island	Norwegian
	Brazil	Brazilian
	British Indian Ocean Territory	British British Virgin Islander
	Brunei Darussalam	Bruneian
	Bulgaria	Bulgarian
	Burkina Faso	Burkinan
	Burundi	Burundian
	Burma (or Myanmar)	Burmese
C	Cambodia	Cambodian
	Cameroon	Cameroonian
	Canada	Canadian
	Cape Verde	Cape Verdean
	Cayman Islands	Cayman Islander
	Central African Republic	Central African
	Chad	Chadian
	Chile	Chilean
	China	Chinese
	Christmas Island	Australian
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	Australian
	Colombia	Colombian
	Comoros	Comoran
	Congo	Congolese (Congo)
	The Democratic Republic of the Congo	Congolese (DRC)
	Cook Islands	Cook Islander
	Costa Rica	Costa Rican
	Croatia	Croatian
	Cuba	Cuban
	Curacao	Dutch
	Cyprus	Cypriot
	Czech Republic	Czech
D	Denmark	Danish
	Djibouti	Djiboutian
	Dominica	Dominican
	Citizen of the Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic
E	East Timor	East Timorese
	Ecuador	Ecuadorean
	Egypt	Egyptian
	El Salvador	Salvadorean
	England Equatorial Guinea	English Equatorial Guinean
	Eritrea	Eritrean
	Estonia	Estonian
	Ethiopia	Ethiopian
F	Falkland Islands	Prydeinig
	Faroe Islands	Faroese
	Fiji	Fijian
	Finland	Finnish
	France	French
	French Guiana	French
	French Polynesia	French
	French Southern Territories	French
G	Gabon	Gabonese
	Gambia	Gambian
	Georgia	Georgian
	Germany	German
	Ghana	Ghanaian
	Gibraltar	Gibraltarian
	Greece	Greek
	Greenland	Greenlandic
	Grenada	Grenadian
	Guadeloupe	French
	Guam	Guamanian
	Guatemala	Guatemalan
	Guernsey	British
	Guinea	Guinean
	Guinea-Bissau	Citizen of Guinea-Bissau
	Guyana	Guyanese
H	Haiti	Haitian
	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Australian
	Honduras	Honduran
	Hong Kong	Hong Konger
	Hungary	Hungarian
I	Iceland	Icelandic
	India	Indian
	Indonesia	Indonesian
	Iran	Iranian
	Iraq	Iraqi
	Ireland	Irish
	Isle of Man	British
	Israel	Israeli
	Italy	Italian
	Ivory Coast	Ivorian
J	Jamaica	Jamaican
	Japan	Japanese
	Jersey	British
	Jordan	Jordanian
K	Kazakhstan	Kazakh
	Kenya	Kenyan
	Kiribati	Citizen of Kiribati
	Kosovo	Kosovan
	Kuwait	Kuwaiti
	Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz
L	Laos	Lao
	Latvia	Latvian
	Lebanon	Lebanese
	Lesotho	Mosotho
	Liberia	Liberian
	Libya	Libyan
	Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein citizen
	Lithuania	Lithuanian
	Luxembourg	Luxembourger
M	Macao	Macanese
	Macedonia	Macedonian
	Madagascar	Malagasy
	Malawi	Malawian
	Malaysia	Malaysian
	Maldives	Maldivian
	Mali	Malian
	Malta	Maltese
	Marshall Islands	Marshallese
	Martinique	Martiniquais
	Mauritania	Mauritanian
	Mauritius	Mauritian
	Mayotte	French
	Mexico	Mexican
	Micronesia	Micronesian
	Moldova	Moldovan
	Monaco	Monegasque
	Mongolia	Mongolian
	Montenegro	Montenegrin
	Montserrat	Montserratian
	Morocco	Moroccan
	Mozambique	Mozambican
	Myanmar (formerly Burma)	Burmese
N	Namibia	Namibian
	Nauru	Nauruan
	Nepal	Nepalese
	Netherlands	Dutch
	New Caledonia	French
	New Zealand	New Zealander
	Nicaragua	Nicaraguan
	Niger	Nigerien
	Nigeria	Nigerian
	Niue	Niuean
	Norfolk Island	Australian
	North Korea	North Korean
	Northern Ireland	Northern Irish
	Northern Mariana Islands	US Citizen
	Norway	Norwegian
O	Oman	Omani
P	Pakistan	Pakistani
	Palau	Palauan
	State of Palestine	Palestinian
	Panama	Panamanian
	Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinean
	Paraguay	Paraguayan
	Peru	Peruvian
	Philippines	Filipino
	Pitcairn	Pitcairn Islander
	Poland	Polish
	Portugal	Portuguese
	Puerto Rico	Puerto Rican
Q	Qatar	Qatari
R	Reunion	French
	Romania	Romanian
	Russia	Russian
	Rwanda	Rwandan
S	Saint Barthelemy	French
	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	St Helenian, Tristanian
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Kittitian
	Saint Lucia	St Lucian
	Saint Martin (French part)	French
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	French
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Vincentian
	Samoa	Samoan
	San Marino	Sammarinese
	Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tomean
	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian
	Scotland	Scottish
	Senegal	Senegalese
	Serbia	Serbian
	Seychelles	Citizen of Seychelles
	Sierra Leone	Sierra Leonean
	Singapore	Singaporean
	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	Dutch
	Slovakia	Slovak
	Slovenia	Slovenian
	Solomon Islands	Solomon Islander
	Somalia	Somali
	South Africa	South African
	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	British
	South Korea	South Korean
	South Sudan	South Sudanese
	Spain	Spanish
	Sri Lanka	Sri Lankan
	Sudan	Sudanese
	Suriname	Surinamese
	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Norwegian
	Swaziland	Swazi
	Sweden	Swedish
	Switzerland	Swiss
	Syria	Syrian
T	Taiwan	Taiwanese
	Tajikistan	Tajik
	Tanzania	Tanzanian
	Thailand	Thai
	Togo	Togolese
	Tokelau	Tokelauan
	Tonga	Tongan
	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidadian
	Tunisia	Tunisian
	Turkey	Turkish
	Turkmenistan	Turkmen
	Turks and Caicos Islands	Turks and Caicos Islander
	Tuvalu	Tuvaluan
U	Uganda	Ugandan
	Ukraine	Ukrainian
	United Arab Emirates	Emirati
	United Kingdom	British
	United States	US Citizen
	United States Minor Outlying Islands	American Islander
	Uruguay	Uruguayan
	Uzbekistan	Uzbek
V	Vanuatu	Citizen of Vanuatu
	Vatican City	Vatican citizen
	Venezuela	Venezuelan
	Vietnam	Vietnamese
	Virgin Islands, British	British
	Virgin Islands, U.S.	US Citizen
W	Wales	Welsh
	Wallis and Futuna	Wallisian
	Western Sahara (Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR))	Saharawis
Y	Yemen	Yemeni
Z	Zambia	Zambian
	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwean

Source: GOV.UK

Protect your address from credit reference agencies

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Usually, Companies House would not publish your home address on the public register but your address would not be withheld from credit reference agencies. This means anyone would like to know where you live can get this information from these agencies. The good news is you can protect your address from credit reference agencies.

However, you can only apply to have your address withheld from credit reference agencies if you are at risk of violence or intimidation because of the nature of your business or the work involved.

You would require to provide proof to Companies House. For examples, a police report number on recent attacked. Additionally, if you have photos and recordings of a threat or attack will be helpful.

For instance, your company trade in animals furs and you have been targeted by the animals’ rights activists. Even with full security cameras and securely gated property, your glass windows been damaged by stones coming from outside your property.

For this, you must apply to Companies House to have your address withheld from credit reference agencies.

How to apply to protect your address

You must contact Companies House to request the relevant application form. Companies House’s contact details are as follows:

Telephone	0303 1234 500
Email	dsr@companieshouse.gov.uk
Opening hours	Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 6pm

source: Companies House

The application cost is £100. The return address and how to pay Companies House are on the form.

This aside, you can also apply to Companies House to have your home address already published on the public register to be removed. The cost per document for this purpose is £32.

Companies House filings during COVID-19 pandemic

Companies House created an interim paperless filing service to accept documents which would normally require a live signature. You can easily upload your documents to Companies House online platform.

On the same note, you are also encouraged to use the WebFiling service to submit the following documents to Companies House.

Confirmation statement
Company accounts
Events driven filings i.e director appointment or change of your registered office address.
Closing down your company.

Correspondingly, you would require your company’s authentication code to file online. The authentication code is the electronic equivalent of your company’s director(s) signatures. Hence, you must keep it safe.

If you require help with your company’s filings, contact Our accountants. They will be more than happy to assist you.

EU countries

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EU countries consist of 27 countries in Europe. EU stands for European Union and it is a political and economic union of 27 countries. Each EU member country must meet the Copenhagen Criteria, in other words, the membership conditions.

The EU adopts a single market where businesses can trade and move freely within the EU member countries. 19 of the EU countries use the euro as their national currency.

On 31 January 2020, the UK left the EU.

List of the countries in the EU

No	EU member Country	Information
1	Austria	Click here
2	Belgium	Click here
3	Bulgaria	Click here
4	Croatia	Click here
5	Cyprus	Click here
6	Czechia	Click here
7	Denmark	Click here
8	Estonia	Click here
9	Finland	Click here
10	France	Click here
11	Germany	Click here
12	Greece	Click here
13	Hungary	Click here
14	Ireland	Click here
15	Italy	Click here
16	Latvia	Click here
17	Lithuania	Click here
18	Luxembourg	Click here
19	Malta	Click here
20	Netherlands	Click here
21	Poland	Click here
22	Portugal	Click here
23	Romania	Click here
24	Slovakia	Click here
25	Slovenia	Click here
26	Spain	Click here
27	Sweden	Click here

Source: europa.eu

Doing business with the UK

The UK government encourage UK businesses to trade internationally and also welcome foreign businesses into the UK.

UK businesses expanding into overseas markets

If you are a UK business and would like to expand your business overseas, you may contact the Department for International Trade regional offices in the UK. They provide support and help to businesses.

Overseas businesses expanding into the UK market

If you would like to expand your business in the UK, you may contact the British Department for International Trade in your home country. Click here for the Department for International Trade offices worldwide.

Generally, an overseas company wants to set up a place of business in the UK must register with Companies House. You must register your overseas company within one month of opening for business in the UK.

Our accountants can help you to register your overseas company.

Get information about a UK company

Companies House maintain a public register of businesses registered with them. The information you can get include the following:

Signed and approved Company accounts
confirmation statement
The company date of incorporation
Company names including company name change history, if applicable.
Current and past company registered office addresses.
Company registration numbers.
Current and past company directors and secretary’s details
The company’s current trading status – active or dissolved
insolvency information, if applicable.

Email reminders from Companies House

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You can sign up for the email reminders with Companies House for your limited company or limited liability partnership (LLP). The email reminders service is to tell you when to submit your company accounts or confirmation statement.

Email reminders proved to be more effective than paper reminders from Companies House.

Paper reminders only work when you can have access to your mails sent to your registered office and you open it on time and act promptly.

We have helped many businesses to restore their companies. They were struck off the register because of non-filing of either their company accounts or confirmation statement.

The common reason was that they did not receive reminders letters from Companies House. Because they forgot to notify Companies House of their new registered office address after they moved to a new office. Understandably, moving office can be stressful and lots to sort out but this event is not an acceptable excuse to miss your company’s filings.

Many of us have at least one email account that we checked regularly. It is very easy to sign up for the email reminders with Companies House.

How to sign up for email reminders

Go to Companies House website to sign up and the service is free.

Sign in to the Companies House online filing service. For new user, you must register for the service first.
Select ‘Activate e reminders’ from your company overview screen.
Click ‘Add an email address’.
Enter your email address (a maximum of 4 for each company).
Click the link in the email from Companies House to validate your email address.
Agree to the Terms of operation.

Thereafter, Companies House will send you an email to confirm when you’ve successfully joined the reminder service.

Companies House filings during COVID-19 pandemic

Companies House also gear up to support UK companies during COVID-19 pandemic. They automatically extend your company’s filing deadline. This will help you to avoid a late filing penalty if you are unable to deliver your company accounts on time during this pandemic. You do not need to do anything. You just need to go to Companies House website to check your new filing deadline.

On the same note, your confirmation statement filing deadline will also be extended. You would have 6 weeks to file your confirmation statement. Likewise, for the events driven filings, you will have 42 days (6 weeks) to notify Companies House instead of the usual 14 days filing deadline.

In addition, Companies House also created an interim paperless filing service to accept documents which would normally require a live signature.

You are encouraged to submit your documents to Companies House digitally. You can use the online web filing service to file the following documents to Companies House.

Confirmation statement
Company accounts
Events driven filings using Companies House forms i.e director resigned or change of your registered office address.
Closing down your company.

Authentication code

To file online, you would require your company’s authentication code. The authentication code is the electronic equivalent of your company’s director(s) signatures. Keep safe your authentication code.

If you require help with your company’s filings, contact Our accountants. They will be more than happy to assist you.

Prefix in front of company number

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Companies House uses standard prefix in front of company number for different categories of businesses registered with them.

No prefix for companies registered in England and Wales

A company registered in England and Wales will have a standard 8 digits numbers as your company registration number printed on your certificate of incorporation. There will be no prefix in front of your company number.

For example, Cute Gifts and Flowers Limited’s company number is 08407369.

SC as prefix for Scottish companies

Whereas for a company registered in Scotland, in other words, has a registered office situated in Scotland will have a Prefix of “SC” in front of your company numbers. For example, XYREX LIMITED’s company number is SC234456.

Prefixes for Overseas companies

There are three types of prefixes for overseas companies.

Prefix	Company type
FC	For all overseas companies registered on or after 1 October 2009 and for overseas companies registered in England and Wales before 1 October 2009.
SF	for overseas companies registered in Scotland before 1 October 2009
NF	for overseas companies registered in Northern Ireland before 1 October 2009

You must provide the correct prefix with your company number for your overseas company when completing the Companies House form – OS MG01 to register a charge with the Registrar of Companies.

List of Prefixes used by Companies House

Knowing your company number’s prefix will help you to be transferred to the right department when you are calling Companies House. This saves yours and the Companies House’s staff time.

Prefix	Company type
N/A	England & Wales Company
AC	Assurance Company for England & Wales
EN	European Company (Societas Europaea) for Northern Ireland
ES	European Company (Societas Europaea) for Scotland
FC	Overseas Company
GE	European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) for England & Wales
GN	European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) for Northern Ireland
GS	European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) for Scotland
IC	ICVC (Investment Company with Variable Capital)
IP	Industrial & Provident Company
LP	Limited Partnership for England & Wales
NA	Assurance Company for Northern Ireland
NC	Limited Liability Partnership for Northern Ireland
NF	Overseas Company regd in Northern Ireland (pre 1/10/09)
NI	Northern Ireland Company (post partition)
NL	Limited Partnership for Northern Ireland
NO	Northern Ireland Credit Union Industrial/Provident Society
NP	Northern Ireland Industrial/Provident Company or Credit Union
NR	Northern Ireland Royal Charter Companies
NV	Northern Ireland ICVC (Investment Company with Variable Capital)
NZ	Unregistered Companies (S 1043 Not Cos Act) for Northern Ireland
OC	Limited Liability Partnership for England & Wales
RC	Royal Charter Companies (English/Wales)
R0	Northern Ireland Company (pre partition)
SA	Assurance Company for Scotland
SC	Scottish Company
SE	European Company (Societas Europaea) for England & Wales
SF	Overseas Company regd in Scotland (pre 1/10/09)
SI	Scottish ICVC (Investment Company with Variable Capital)
SL	Limited Partnership for Scotland
SO	Limited Liability Partnership for Scotland
SP	Scottish Industrial/Provident Company
SR	Scottish Royal Charter Companies
SZ	Unregistered Companies (S 1043 Not Cos Act) for Scotland
ZC	Unregistered Companies (S 1043 – Not Cos Act) for England & Wales

Source: Department for
Business, Energy
& Industrial Strategy – Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Customer Guide

Companies House filings

Generally, organisations registered with Companies House in the United Kingdom must comply with the UK company law. This includes submitting the following documents to Companies House when they are due.

You must also require to notify Companies House when there is a change in your company details like new director appointment or change of registered office address etc.

If you have any questions about your company’s legal filings requirements, contact our accountants. They will be more than happy to assist you.

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UK businesses expanding into overseas markets

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Companies House filings during COVID-19 pandemic

Authentication code

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