Finance Act 2005

This is our most popular package with UK residents, and includes: -

The registration of your company from scratch using your own registered office address, and appoint your own candidates to the roles of director, secretary (if needed), and shareholder;

The standard capital on formation is £1.00, this is divided into 1.00 ordinary share valued at £1.00 (a minimum of one share must be issued);

The formation of a limited company usually takes as little as four to six hours from the time that your application and payment are received by Coddan;

The government fee for incorporation is included in the price of this package;

The following documents, which need to be printed and signed, will be emailed to you upon formation of your company: -

A certificate of incorporation (requires PDF file reader);

The memorandum & articles of association (requires MS-Word file reader);

The first meeting of the board of directors (requires MS-Word file reader);

Share certificates and a company register (requires MS-Word file reader).

E-Quick Package

£ 32.00

No Annual Charges

The Deluxe limited company package is a fast and easy option, it is ideal for the UK, EU, and international small to medium businesses who wish to appoint a nominee director and a nominee secretary in order to maintain anonymity, and it includes: -

Incorporation of your company from scratch using one of our registered office addresses in London, our nominee director and nominee secretary. We can appoint your own candidate(s) to the role of shareholder(s), or you can appoint a nominee sharholder provided by Coddan;

The standard capital on formation is £1.00, this is divided into 1.00 ordinary share valued at £1.00 (a minimum of one share must be issued);

The formation of a limited company usually takes as little as four to six hours from the time that your application and payment are received by Coddan;

The government fee for incorporation is included in the price of this package;

The provision of a registered office address for 12 months is included in the price of this package (our registered office address service is charged annually);

The provision of a nominee secretary for 12 months is included in the price of this package (our nominee secretary service is charged annually);

The provision of a nominee director for 12 months is also included in the price of this package (our nominee director service is charged annually);

The following two hard bound copies of corporate documents, will be posted to you upon formation of your company: -

A laminated copy of the certificate of incorporation of your company;

A hard bound copy of the memorandum and articles of association;

A hard bound copy of the minutes of the first meeting of directors;

Share certificates, and your company register;

The general power of attorney signed by a nominee director;

Pre-signed, undated resignation letter from a nominee director;

The agreement for the provision of nominee service and indemnification of nominee.

Deluxe Package

£ 557.00

Annual Maintenance Fee £525.00

A private company limited by shares in England and Wales must have at least one director, one shareholder, and may have a secretary.

You need at least one person to form this type of company. If there is only one director, and that director is a natural person in your company, that director can also act as the secretary.

A company must have at least one director who is a natural person. This requirement is met if the office of director is held by a natural person as a corporation sole or otherwise by virtue of an office.

You can register a sole director' company, if you are familiar with the secretaries duties and responsibilities, because all of them belongs to a sole director.

The directors and secretary of your company can also be shareholders.

The Companies Act imposes no restriction on the minimum age of company directors. However Companies House will actively discourage the appointment of anyone under the age of 16 from taking up a company directorship on the grounds that the individuals concerned may not fully understand the legal liabilities that go with the position and for the most part will not have the experience necessary to perform the duties of a company director.

Under the Companies Act 2006, there is no restriction on any or all of the members/shareholders being from an overseas country (i.e. outside the United Kingdom in terms of residency, domicile, citizenship, place of incorporation or all or any of those concepts).

There is no requirement for the officers of your company to be UK citizens or residents, nor for them to hold valid work permits.

Owning, or being an officer of a UK company does not, however, grant you any right to live or work in the UK if you are a foreign national.

Your company must have a registered office address within England or Wales; this is the official address of your company and will be on the public record as such.

Your company must hold its official company documents at its registered office address: its register of shareholders, and its constitutional documents.

So long as you maintain a registered office address in England or Wales, you can conduct your business from any place in the world: you do not have to run your business from your registered office address.

Legal Requirements to Register an LTD

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Finance Act 2005

2005 Chapter 7 - continued

PART 2, INCOME TAX, CORPORATION TAX AND CAPITAL GAINS TAX - continued

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CHAPTER 8

ACCOUNTING PRACTICE AND RELATED MATTERS

Accounting practice and related matters

(1) Schedule 4 (accounting practice and related matters) has effect.

(2) In that Schedule-

Part 2 makes other provision connected with accounting practice.

(3) Part 1 of the Schedule, so far as it amends provisions that have effect both for income tax and corporation tax, has effect for the purposes of corporation tax only.

(4) Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of the Schedule have effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005.

Computation of profits: change of accounting basis

(1) In section 64 of FA 2002 (computation of profits: adjustment on change of basis), for subsection (3) (meaning of "relevant change of accounting approach") substitute-

	"(3) A "relevant change of accounting approach" means-
	(a) a change of accounting principle or practice that, in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice, gives rise to a prior period adjustment, or
	(b) a change from using UK generally accepted accounting practice to using generally accepted accounting practice with respect to accounts drawn up in accordance with international accounting standards.".

(2) In paragraphs 4(3) and 5(2) of Schedule 22 to FA 2002 (adjustments treated as arising on the last day of the first period of account for which the new basis is adopted), for "last day" substitute "first day".

(3) The amendments in this section have effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005.

Change of accounting practice: deferment of transitional adjustments

(1) This section applies where-

(a) a company enters into a transaction on or after 14th December 2004, otherwise than in the ordinary course of its business,

(b) as a result of the transaction it incurs a loss in respect of a loan relationship or derivative contract in respect of which, apart from this section, a debit would fall to be brought into account for tax purposes in a period of account beginning before 1st January 2005,

(c) the sole or main purpose of the company in entering into the transaction at the time it did was to enable it to bring a debit into account for tax purposes in such a period, and

(d) if the company had continued to hold the asset or liability representing the loan relationship or derivative contract, as it was held immediately before the transaction referred to in paragraph (a), in its first period of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005, a debit would have arisen in respect of the loan relationship or derivative contract in that period that was a prescribed debit for the purposes of regulation 3 of the Loan Relationship and Derivative Contracts (Change of Accounting Practice) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3271) (debits not to be brought into account until the company's first period beginning on or after 1st January 2006).

(2) Where this section applies no such debit as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) shall be brought into account in the period of account mentioned there, but a debit of the same amount shall instead be brought into account as if it were a prescribed debit for the purposes of the regulation referred to in subsection (1)(d) (even though the loss giving rise to the debit was incurred before 1st January 2005).

(3) In determining the sole or main purpose of a company for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) regard shall be had to anything done by a connected company that would be relevant for the purposes of that determination if done by the company in question.

For this purpose companies are connected if they are connected persons within the meaning of section 839 of ICTA.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1)(d) it shall be assumed that the loan relationship or derivative contract has the same value at the beginning of the company's first period of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005 as it had at the time of the transaction referred to in subsection (1)(a).

(5) This section does not apply where the transaction is entered into in pursuance of legally binding arrangements entered into before 14th December 2004.

(6) In this section, references to a company entering into a transaction include a reference to the company, or the directors of the company, taking a decision about a loan relationship or derivative contract that affects its treatment for accounting purposes (other than a decision to prepare some or all of the company's accounts in accordance with international accounting standards).

Application of accounting standards to securitisation companies

(1) For the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts as they apply to a securitisation company in relation to a period of account-

(a) beginning on or after 1st January 2005, and

(b) ending before 1st January 2007,

generally accepted accounting practice shall be taken to be UK generally accepted accounting practice as it applied for a period of account ending on 31st December 2004.

(2) For the purposes of this section a "securitisation company" means a company that is-

(a) a note-issuing company,

(b) an asset-holding company,

(d) a warehouse company, or

(e) a commercial paper funded company,

as defined below.

(3) A "note-issuing company" means a company in relation to which the following conditions are met-

(a) it is party as debtor to a capital market investment,

(b) the securities that represent the capital market investment are issued wholly or mainly to independent persons,

(d) the total value of the capital market investments made under that capital market arrangement is at least £50 million.

(4) An "asset-holding company" means a company-

(a) whose business (apart from any incidental activities) consists in acquiring, holding and managing assets forming the whole or part of the security for a capital market arrangement entered into by a note-issuing company, and

(b) whose liabilities representing debtor relationships are owed wholly or mainly to a note-issuing company or intermediate borrowing company.

(5) An "intermediate borrowing company" means a company-

(a) whose only business is to enter into and be a party to creditor relationships with an asset-holding company, and

(b) whose liabilities representing debtor relationships are owed wholly, or substantially wholly, to a note-issuing company.

(6) A "warehouse company" means a company whose business consists wholly of acquiring and holding financial assets for the purpose-

(a) of transferring them to a company (whether or not yet in existence) that at the time of the transfer is, or as a result of the transfer will become, an asset-holding or note-issuing company, or

(b) of itself becoming an asset-holding or note-issuing company.

(7) A "commercial paper funded company" means-

(a) a company that was an asset-holding company but whose obligations under debtor relationships to a note-issuing company or intermediate borrowing company-

(i) have been transferred to, or

(ii) have been replaced by obligations under debtor relationships to,

one or more companies carrying on a business of banking, or

(b) a company that was an intermediate borrowing company but whose obligations under debtor relationships to a note-issuing company-

(i) have been transferred to, or

(ii) have been replaced by obligations under debtor relationships to,

one or more companies carrying on a business of banking.

(8) In this section-

"asset" includes any option, future or contract for differences as defined for the purposes of Schedule 26 to FA 2002 (derivative contracts) (see paragraph 12 of that Schedule);

"capital market investment" and "capital market arrangement" have the same meaning as in section 72B(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45) (see paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 2A to that Act);

"company" includes a partnership;

"financial asset" has the meaning it has for accounting purposes; and

"independent persons" means persons who are not connected with the company.

(9) Section 839 of ICTA (connected persons) applies for the purposes of the definition above of "independent persons", except that in applying the definition of "control" in that section a person is not to be treated as a participator in a company by reason only that he is a loan creditor of the company.

Taxation of securitisation companies

(1) The Treasury may make provision by regulations as to the application of the Corporation Tax Acts in relation to a securitisation company.

(2) For the purposes of this section a "securitisation company" means a company-

(a) in relation to which the following conditions are met-

(i) it is party as debtor to a capital market investment,

(ii) securities representing that capital market investment are issued, and

(iii) the capital market investment is part of a capital market arrangement,

and which meets such other conditions as may be specified; or

(b) of a description specified by reference to its relationship, direct or indirect, with a company within paragraph (a).

(3) The regulations may, in particular-

(a) provide for the application, modification or non-application of any of the provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts;

(b) provide-

(i) that the amount of profits of any specified description (before any such adjustments as are mentioned in paragraph (c)) is to be taken to be such amount, or is to be calculated on such basis, as may be specified, and

(ii) that that amount is to be brought into account for corporation tax purposes instead of any specified amount that would otherwise fall to be brought into account;

(d) provide-

(i) that the regulations apply to a company only if an election to that effect is made,

(ii) that any such election must be made in the company's first company tax return after the passing of this Act and has effect in relation to every period of account of the company beginning on or after 1st January 2005, and

(iii) that once subject to the regulations a company shall continue to be so for all subsequent periods of account;

(e) impose conditions that must be met if a company is to have, or continue to have, the benefit of the regulations; and

(f) provide for the consequences of failing to meet any specified condition (which may include recalculating, on the basis that the regulations did not apply, the company's profits for previous periods).

(4) The regulations may make different provision for different descriptions of company.

(5) Regulations under this section may-

(a) in the case of-

(i) regulations made before 1st January 2006, or

(ii) the first regulations under this section (if made on or after that date),

make provision having effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005;

(b) in any case, make provision having effect from the beginning of periods of account current when the regulations are made.

(6) In this section-

"capital market investment" and "capital market arrangement" have the same meaning as in section 72B(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45) (see paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 2A to that Act); and

"specified" means specified in regulations under this section.

(7) The first regulations under this section shall not be made unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.

Prepared 11 April 2005


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