Company registration and maintenance
- Official formation fee
Current complete Registry fee schedule could not be independently retrieved; obtain the official 2026 schedule rather than using an agent’s package price.
- Annual state fee
Annual Registry fee and validation required; current exact fee unverified in accessible primary evidence.
- Share capital
Current minimum-capital requirement not independently reverified for this baseline.
- Directors
Director appointments and eligibility require current Companies Law review; do not infer confidentiality from a paid registry extract.
- Shareholders
A company-held member register must be maintained; the official guidance explains public inspection, purpose particulars and a court route for improper requests.
- Office / registered agent
Registered office/resident-agent and licensed-provider requirements need confirmation for the proposed structure.
- Published timing
No current official processing-time promise quoted.
What the public can see
- Directors / managers
Director register is inspectable by any person for the statutory fee; protected/service-address particulars require separate attention.
- Shareholders
Any person may request member-register inspection/copies for a fee, stating the purpose and recipients. The company must comply within five working days or seek court refusal for an improper purpose.
- Beneficial owners
Private central register accessible to law enforcement and eligible obliged entities; legitimate-interest proposals must be rechecked.
- Accounts
Current ordinary public-accounts filing status not independently reverified in accessible primary evidence.
Paid, purpose-stated inspection available to any person is treated as public in this comparison. Accounts access remains unverified, so the complete privacy rating is withheld. Authority and regulated-provider access are separate.
Profits, company tax and distributions
- Ordinary company treatment
0% standard; 10%/20% sector/income exceptions
- Standard headline comparison rate
0% — before lower bands and conditional reliefs
- Retained-profit comparison
0% — company layer
- Distributed-profit comparison
0% — company layer, excluding owner’s tax and outbound withholding
- Conditional reliefs / alternatives
10% specified financial/fiduciary activities; 20% specified utilities, property, large retail and other activities. In-scope MNE minimum-tax rules require separate review.
- Distributions / withholding
Owner-level distribution and non-resident withholding treatment not independently reverified in accessible current primary sources; obtain a transaction-specific check.
- Other tax conditions
Ordinary unregulated non-property company baseline only. Company income, owner income and substance are separate.
The company-tax baseline
The government’s relocation service describes 0%,10% and 20% company rates. The 0% entry is for an ordinary company outside the listed higher-rate activities; it is not a general rate for regulated financial services, local property or large retail. Owner distribution tax remains separate.
An explicit research limitation
Current official Registry and consolidated-law pages could not be retrieved. The UK Parliament’s 2026 briefing supports the non-public BO register and obliged-entity access, but it does not settle every member-register or accounts-inspection right. Those unknowns remain visible and unscored.