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Does your company have to pay the ICO data protection fee?
Most companies that process personal data must pay it, most do not know it exists, and it is enforced.
7 September 2026 · 4 min read
Filings and deadlinesYou missed the confirmation statement deadline. Now what?
What actually happens when a confirmation statement is late, how strike-off proceedings start, and how to stop them.
7 September 2026 · 5 min read
Filings and deadlinesHiring your first employee: what a company must do
PAYE, pensions, insurance and the contract — the four things that must exist before the first payday, not after it.
3 September 2026 · 6 min read
Filings and deadlinesChanging your company's year end
You can shorten an accounting period almost freely and lengthen it only within limits. Here is what those limits are.
1 September 2026 · 4 min read
Filings and deadlinesIdentity verification for directors: what changed and what you must do
Directors and people with significant control must now have a verified identity. Here is who it applies to, how it is done, and what a verified status does and does not cover.
31 August 2026 · 5 min read
Filings and deadlinesThe PSC register: who counts, and how it goes wrong
People with significant control is the transparency rule most often filed incorrectly — and getting it wrong is a criminal offence, not an administrative slip.
28 August 2026 · 5 min read
Filings and deadlinesThe director's loan account, explained
What happens when money moves between you and your company without being salary or a dividend — and the tax charge that catches people out.
12 August 2026 · 5 min read
Filings and deadlinesHow to pay yourself a dividend, properly
Dividends are not "taking money out of the account". Here is what makes one lawful, and what happens when it is not.
10 August 2026 · 5 min read
Filings and deadlinesDo I need to register my company for VAT?
When registration becomes compulsory, when volunteering helps, and when it quietly costs you a fifth of your margin.
8 August 2026 · 5 min read
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