{"id":1474,"date":"2024-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/update-on-companies-house-changes\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:00:00","slug":"update-on-companies-house-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/update-on-companies-house-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Companies House changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Companies House is morphing from passive registrar into a monitoring agency for the government. Changes that are likely to impact the business community from as early as March 2024 are listed below, extracted from a Companies House blog post, dated 22 January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act became law in October 2023. Since then, we&rsquo;ve been getting ready to introduce the measures brought in by the act.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#039;re aiming to introduce the first set of changes on 4 March 2024. The introduction of these changes needs secondary legislation, so this date is still dependent on parliamentary timetables. It will not be earlier than 4 March 2024. These changes include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>greater powers to query information and request supporting evidence;<\/li>\n<li>stronger checks on company names;<\/li>\n<li>new rules for registered office addresses;<\/li>\n<li>a requirement for all companies to supply a registered email address;<\/li>\n<li>a requirement for all companies to confirm they&rsquo;re forming the company for a lawful purpose when they incorporate, and to confirm its intended future activities will be lawful on their confirmation statement;<\/li>\n<li>the ability to annotate the register when information appears confusing or misleading;<\/li>\n<li>taking steps to clean up the register, using data matching to identify and remove inaccurate information; and<\/li>\n<li>sharing data with other government departments and law enforcement agencies.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One change from 4 March 2024 that may require action when these new regulations are finally introduced, is the requirement for companies to have an &ldquo;appropriate&rdquo; registered office address, no more PO Box numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another change is the requirement to provide Companies House with a registered email address. From 4 March 2024, new companies will need to give a registered email address when they incorporate. Existing companies will need to give a registered email address when they file their next confirmation statement with a statement date from 5 March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will also need to confirm the company&rsquo;s intended future activities are lawful on the confirmation statement. The intention of these new statements is to make it clear that all companies on the register, new and existing, have a duty to operate in a lawful way. Companies House may act against your company if they receive information that confirms you are not operating lawfully.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Companies House is morphing from passive registrar into a monitoring agency for the government. Changes that are likely to impact the business community from as early as March 2024 are listed below, extracted from a Companies House blog post, dated 22 January 2024. &nbsp; &ldquo;The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act became law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","blog-left-layout","blog-style-postblock","","blog-alt-odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}