Everything a UK subsidiary needs
Thirty-nine services across four lines. The same practice incorporates the company, registers it for tax, runs its payroll and files its accounts.
Corporate governance
Everything needed to exist and trade in the UK: the company or the branch, the registers, the HMRC registrations, the bank account, the contracts, the licences and the insurance.
Setting up the subsidiary
Incorporation and the registrations that follow
A UK branch instead
A UK branch of the existing company, registered at Companies House
HMRC registrations
Corporation tax, PAYE, VAT and the other HMRC registrations
Registered office and company secretarial
A UK registered office and the company's filings
UK bank account
Sterling banking for a company owned and directed from abroad
Directors' duties
The seven statutory duties and where liability sits
Commercial agreements
UK-law terms for the contracts the subsidiary signs
Licences and registrations
Permissions a UK operation may need before it can start
Data protection
ICO registration and data moving to the parent
Business insurance
The cover a UK company must carry by law and by contract
Health and safety
The duties that start with the first UK employee
Dormant or pre-trading subsidiary
A company held before trading starts or kept after it stops
Closing the company
Striking off, liquidation, or pausing the company
Finance and tax
Bookkeeping, expenses, credit control and payments, plus corporation tax, VAT and customs, run so the group gets its numbers on time and HMRC gets them correctly.
Bookkeeping and annual accounts
UK bookkeeping and statutory accounts
Management accounts and group reporting
A monthly pack in the group's format, on the group's close calendar
Expense management
A UK expense policy, the system behind it and the VAT it recovers
Credit control
Getting UK invoices paid: purchase order to escalation
Payments and banking
A supplier payment run with approvals and fraud controls
Corporation tax
The CT600, the payment dates and the associated-company test
VAT registration and returns
Registration, quarterly returns and import VAT
People
UK payroll and pensions, benefits and share awards, employment contracts, recruitment, casework and moving group staff into the UK.
Payroll, pensions and employing in the UK
PAYE every payday and the workplace pension
Benefits and P11D
Reporting anything given to UK staff beyond salary
Employee share schemes
Parent share awards through UK payroll and the July return
Recruitment
A first UK hire: package to signed contract
Policies and procedures
A UK handbook and the procedures a tribunal expects
Employee benefits
What a UK package contains and how it is taxed
Casework and training
Sickness, performance, grievance and dismissal, run to UK process
Secondments and sponsorship
Moving people from the group into the UK
Overseas directors
UK tax on directors who live abroad
HR and employment
UK contracts, a handbook and an adviser to call
Virtual office
A UK address that meets the rules, post opened the day it arrives, a UK number answered in your name, and someone to accept legal documents.
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