Scottish Limited Companies for Non-Uk Residents
Charge for services 43
Service Volume discount£ 0
Net cost of services 43
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Scottish LLP for Non-UK Residents
This service includes
- Ready to Trade Company limited by shares ( LTD / Limited )
- Companies House filing fee of £13 (paid by us)
- Emailed PDF of Certificate of Incorporation
- Emailed PDF of Memorandum & Articles of Association
- Emailed PDF of Share Certificate(s)
- Emailed PDF of Minutes of the first meeting of Directors
- Emailed PDF of Statutory Books
- Free Online Company Manager to Maintain your Companies
- Free Online & Telephone Support for the Life of your Company
- Web authentication code to update Companies House records
Optional Free Services
- 1 hour consultation with Accountants. Either face-to-face or by skype.
- Optional referral to bookkeeping and accounting bureau
- Introduction to online accounting software with introductory benefits.
Optional extra
- Scottish Registered Office
- Vat Registration
- One set of documents delivered worldwide by DHL
- Bank referral with Guarantee!
Additional items available at checkout
You can add these items during the order process
Information for Non-residents
Requirements for registering a company in the UK
A company can be formed in the UK by anyone, although directors must be over 16 years of age. To form a UK registered company limited by shares, you will need the following:
- A Registered Office in the UK. We provide a London address
- 1 shareholder and 1 director. They can be the same person
- Issued share capital: This can be as little as £1.
There can be more directors and shareholders, and there is no limit to the number of shares that can be issued.
Directors and Shareholders
- Directors and Shareholders can be corporate i.e. another limited company can be appointed as a director.
- A company must have at least 1 natural person as a director so; there must be at least 1 named individual acting as a director.
- There is no requirement for directors and shareholders to be UK resident.
Bank Accounts referral system for non-UK residents
- For more information about non-uk resident banking options please read our guide.
- We have an affiliation agreements with a number of UK, Irish and overseas banks. All are regulated in their jurisdictions. Some of our affiliate banks can now offer electronic banking in the UK with UK bank account numbers, sort codes, IBAN and Swift codes. Applications can be made entirely online and in some cases are free. We also offer cashback up to £30 for accounts with a number of our affiliates. Our guarantee applies to all applicants as long as their identification documents and business plans are genuine.
VAT registration for companies controlled by non-UK residents
As a non-resident owner of a UK company, you may find it difficult to register for VAT if you don’t have proper trading premises in the UK. HMRC does not consider a Registered Office or business/ virtual mail address as a business establishment. Notwithstanding your UK registration, you company will be classified as a “non-established taxable person”.
Identification documents and Money Laundering Regulations
Although we do not require documents at the time an order is placed, anyone using our registered office service will be asked to supply identification documents once the service has been set up. We will need 1 document providing proof of name; passport or drivers licence etc. and 1 document providing proof of address; utility bill etc. In some circumstances, we will ask you to have the documents notarised.
Apostille
The U.K. is party to the Hague Convention and can issue Apostilled documents that will be accepted in the other 100+ countries that are signed up to the agreement. An Apostille certificate is issued by the U.K.s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCOH) and states that a document is authentic. Not all documents can be apostilled;
Some may first need to be legalised. If you wish a document to be Apostilled, you can order the service at our checkout when you place an order.
Certificate of Incumbency
Our non-resident clients sometimes ask us to arrange the issue of a Certificates of Incumbency. However, UK Government agencies do not officially recognise the term or issue a document by this name. It is, of course, possible to create such a document and have it notarised, but it will not be issued by a government agency. The nearest alternative is a Certificate of Good Standing.
Certificate of Good Standing
Certificates of Good Standing are issued by Companies House and confirm that a company’s statutory filings are up to date, and no action is being taken to strike off the company. The Certificate will also confirm the date of Incorporation, the name of the company and the Company number. The Certificate can also include; details of directors; the Registered Office address, the share capital of the company, and details of the subscribers to the memorandum. If you wish to buy a Certificate of Good Standing, it is an option that we make available at checkout when you place an order.
Document Legalisation
You may need a document Apostilled that has not been issued by a Government Agency. If that is the case, the document will first need to be legalised by a notary or lawyer. We will arrange this; our charge for the Apostille service includes the cost of the notary or lawyer.
Objects clause and the Memorandum and Articles of Association
The majority of companies formed in the UK use the model Memorandum and Articles of Association contained in the Companies Acts 2006. They are the constitution of the company. One significant feature of the model Memorandum and Articles are the omission of an objects clause. The last Companies Act removed the requirement to include the objects of the company in its constitution. The practice of drafting the objects so widely as to ensure that no conceivable legal activity could possibly be excluded had, for many years, made the clause obsolete.
The omission of an objects clause can cause problems in overseas jurisdictions. Owners who are intending to open a branch office outside the UK often have to supply a copy of the company’s constitution to get permission. Authorities may insist that an objects clause is written into the constitution.
Companies can be formed with Memorandum and Articles of Association that include an objects clause. Clients can ask us to use articles that they have drafted themselves. To include bespoke Articles, simply contact us before placing your order.
Certifying Model Articles of Association
The process of forming a company online involves notifying Companies House that the newly formed company will adopt model Articles of Association. Companies House do not have a document they can certify. Clients requiring an official certification of their Articles of Association should supply their own document that can be uploaded with the electronic application to form a company. Companies Hose can then be asked to certify the supplied document.
UK Jurisdiction
Companies House splits the UK into 3 jurisdictions; Scotland, Northern Ireland and the joint jurisdiction of England and Wales. The location of your Registered Office determines the jurisdiction of your company. Although you can have places of business in all the jurisdictions, your Registered Office must stay in the jurisdiction of your registration.
It is now possible to be registered for VAT, even if you do not have UK premises and are a non-established taxable person.
One set of documents delivered worldwide by DHL
We will deliver your printed incorporation documents using DHL’s Express Worldwide service.
Bank referral with Guarantee!
We now have a number of options for non-uk residents. Some that are available even include cashback up to £30.
Whatever happens, if you fail to open an account we will return this net fee (after £4 discount).
Apostille Service
Your document will be legalised by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in accordance with the Hague Convention. The process normally takes about 5 working days. Faster options are available, please ask for details. The price is for a single document. Orders for more than 1 document will attract a 10% discount for each additional document. Postage to an address in the UK is free. Please contact our support team if you want your documents couriered to a destination outside the UK.
Corporate Hijack Protection
Receive an email alert whenever a change is made to your company's details at Companies House.
Certificate of Good Standing with FREE delivery to UK Address
Certificates of Good Standing are issued by Companies House and take approximately 5 days. Postage to an address in the UK is Free. You will be charged EXTRA for Delivery outside the UK
1 hour free Accountants consultation
We will refer you to an accountant who meets your selection criteria. You will be entitled to a free initial consultation. Either face-to-face or by skype.
Pre-submission Review
Use this service to check your application. We will ensure that you don’t make any costly mistakes that will need to be rectified after your company has been created.
Guaranteed Same Day Service
This service guarantees that your company will be formed on the day you place the order; providing the order is placed on a normal working day before 2.15 pm.
Telephone Answering Services
Option 1 - Receive calls and take messages with Free 0207 number.The charge for each message will be £1.25+vat. A non-refundable deposit of £25+vat is required for this service. The annual fee is £145+vat.
Option 2 – Free 0207 number with call divert to UK telephone number and message taking. The annual fee is £145+vat. The charge for each message will be £1.25+vat and diverted calls will be charged at cost+15%. Requires a further deposit of £100 of which £25+vat is not refundable.
Option 3 - Free 0207 number with call divert to overseas telephone number and message taking. The annual fee is £145+vat. The charge for each message will be £1.25+vat and diverted calls will be charged at cost+15%. Requires a further deposit of £200 of which £25+vat is not refundable.
UK Post Box Service
Add our post box service to your order and we will accept all your post and hold it for you to collect. That includes letters, parcels and signed for items such as registered or recorded mail. Unlike the Royal Mail we are able to accept signed for items from ANY courier source. You may collect or have your mail collected on your behalf. A handling fee of 17p per item of post will also be charged.
Warning: To be a director of a company or a partner in an LLP, you have to give Companies House your name, date of birth and residential address. Companies House will publish this information on their website, which is available for anyone to access. As a consequence your personal information will be available to complete strangers.
The risks are obvious:
- Identity theft: The amount of information that is available on social media and other websites about individuals makes it increasingly easy to steal their identity. Making a name, address and date of birth available on an open website makes it so much easier for fraudsters.
- Physical Risk: If your company operates a Business to Consumer (B2C) model, you can become the focus of a customer’s attention without being aware of the fact. Making your home address publicly available makes you vulnerable.
Director’s service address: Companies House will allow you to provide a service address, and that will be published instead of your personal address. If you do not have an office address that you can use as both Registered Office and Director’s Service address, you should consider using our Registered Office Service. The Director’s service address is provided free of charge.
Order Processing Time.
We cannot guarantee completion of your order in 3 hrs.
Unless you have asked for a pre-submission review, Your completed order will be submitted to Companies House as soon as you place it and they will take from 3- 24 working hours to process your it. The time taken by Companies House to process an order is completely outside our control.Companies House is open between 8.30am to 6 pm (Monday to Friday).
Same Day Service.
If you need your company formed on the day you place your order, we offer a same day service. We charge £23+vat to cover additional fees charged by Companies House. The guarantee is only effective if you place your order before 2.30 p.m. on a working day.
Scottish Registered Office Service
The discounted reg office price is £30+vat
Your Registered Office and director's service address will be
The Edinburgh Office,
101 Rose Street South Lane,
Edinburgh,
EH2 3JG
Your personal address will not be on display at Companies House.
Package includes:
- Registered Office for 1 year.
- Free Directors service address for all directors for 1 year.
- Free delivery of official post (letters from HMRC, Companies House and the Courts) via our unique scanning service.
- Free maintenance of Statutory Records.
- Fixed annual renewal fee of £36+vat per year.
Please Note:
Please note that we provide a correspondence address and not a freight forwarding address. We will not accept parcels weighing more than 10 kilos or exceeding the following dimensions: 46cm x 33 cm x 27 cm.
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