What is a Person with Significant Control (PSC)?
A PSC is anyone who ultimately owns or controls a company — usually through more than 25% of its shares or votes.
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Plain-English answers to the everyday questions of running a company — shares, certificates, PSCs, confirmation statements and more.
Identity verification under ECCTA
New rules require directors and PSCs to verify their identity with Companies House. Here is what it means.
Read guide →The registered email address and the company authentication code
Two small pieces of company admin with big consequences: the ECCTA registered email and the Companies House authentication code.
Read guide →Paying dividends, and paying shareholders different amounts
When a company can pay a dividend at all, the difference between interim and final, why shareholders in the same class must be paid the same per share, and the two lawful ways to pay different amounts — different share classes and dividend waivers.
Read guide →Getting a document signed electronically
Send any PDF to a client to read and sign online, and get back a signed copy with a completion certificate.
Read guide →Finding and preparing a document
How the document picker is organised by transaction, and how to search the Document Library to find any document quickly.
Read guide →Signing forms and documents in Compaxit
Keep signatures on file once, then place them on board minutes, resolutions and Companies House forms.
Read guide →What is a confirmation statement (CS01)?
Every UK company must file a confirmation statement at least once a year to confirm its details are correct at Companies House.
Read guide →Presenter details and authentication on forms
What the Presenter block and the authentication name on a Companies House form are for, and when to include them.
Read guide →Appointing and removing directors
How directors join and leave a company, and the forms that tell Companies House: AP01, TM01 and CH01.
Read guide →What are a company’s statutory registers?
Every company must keep statutory registers — the official internal record of its members, directors, PSCs and more.
Read guide →How to issue (allot) new shares
Allotting shares brings new money or new members into a company. Here is the process and what you must file.
Read guide →How to transfer shares
Transferring shares moves ownership between people. No new money reaches the company, and nothing is filed at Companies House at the time.
Read guide →What is a share certificate?
A share certificate is a company’s formal evidence that someone owns a stated number of its shares.
Read guide →Share capital: classes, allotment, currency, and how to change things
Why a share class and the shares in issue are two different things, how to add capital, holding shares in more than one currency, and what is actually involved in changing a nominal value or a currency.
Read guide →Share numbers and certificates: how it all fits together
The two kinds of share number, when the law requires them, what a certificate must show, and how allotments, transfers and sub-divisions keep the register, the numbers and the certificates in balance.
Read guide →What is a statement of capital?
A statement of capital is a snapshot of a company’s shares — how many, of what class, and their nominal value.
Read guide →Paid, unpaid and share premium explained
What “issue price”, “share premium” and “amount unpaid” mean — and why Companies House asks for the paid and unpaid figures on every allotment.
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