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Published: 13 March 2025 1:37 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
Companies House ACSP registration update – new launch date 18 March 2025
Companies House has just announced that they will be launching the ACSP registration process on 18 March 2025 (having been delayed since February 2025). Individuals will be able to start completing their own IDV from 8 April 2025. Their update says: “Companies House software provider update, 13 March 2025 We can now confirm the ACSP
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Published: 5 August 2024 3:32 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
What’s happening with Companies House identity verification?
At Kudocs, we simplify company management for business owners and professional advisers. As part of this, we keep abreast of important Companies House regulatory changes to help our customers manage company registers in compliance with current law. Companies House is continuing to prepare for the launch of the new Identity Verification (IDV) requirements as set
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Published: 13 June 2024 4:05 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
Data import – to build historic data
We have had this feature available for a while in beta mode, but are now pleased to announce that you can import data from previous entity registers to recreate a company’s history. You still use Companies House as the source data to create the account with current information, but if you have years of history
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Published: 20 February 2024 11:07 am Author: Oliver Stanley
Companies House fee changes – 1 May 2024
Breaking news. Companies House has just published details of the new fees they will be charging from 1 May 2024. While the UK has always been considered relatively ‘cheap’ compared to other jurisdictions – and probably remains so – these increases are quite significant compared to previous rates. The most commonly incurred new fees are:
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Published: 17 January 2024 4:59 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 – first implementation plans
The new Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) received royal assent in October 2023. Companies House (and Kudocs) are getting ready for implementation of the various changes. These will be done in stages over the coming months and years, as secondary legislation is needed in many cases to bring the changes into effect.
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Published: 19 May 2023 2:49 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 – Companies House prepares for implementation: UPDATE
A quick update on the implementation of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022. The latest information is that it may receive Royal Assent in July 2023, although this date cannot be guaranteed. If this timing is met, Companies House will start to implement their first changes (see here: https://www.kudocs.co.uk/economic-crime-transparency-and-enforcement-act-2022-companies-house-prepares-for-implementation/) perhaps as early as
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Published: 24 March 2023 11:27 am Author: Oliver Stanley
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 – Companies House prepares for implementation
Companies House are starting to make plans for initial implementations of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022. Assuming that the Act gets Royal Assent, Companies House (“CH”) has begun planning what changes it will start implementing later this year. The first changes expected are: Each company will be required to provide a registered
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Published: 17 March 2023 11:34 am Author: Oliver Stanley
Feature update – March 2023
A short summary of some of the new feature’s we’ve released up until March 2023: Unconsolidated & consolidated share certificates Generally speaking, Kudocs generates consolidated share certificate, and all previous certificates generated in Kudocs are automatically cancelled. However, you now have the option to generate an unconsolidated share certificate when you record a recent
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Published: 26 January 2023 5:05 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 – what’s the latest?
What is happening at Companies House (“CH”) vis-a-vis the planned identification verification checks? The White Paper makes it clear that ID verification will be possible either (i) directly via CH; or (ii) if completed by registered third parties. CH does not want to risk “duplicating the checks that third parties and supervisors are already required
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Published: 12 December 2022 4:02 pm Author: Oliver Stanley
Feature update – December 2022
A short summary of some of the new feature’s we’ve released up until December 2022 Draft Incorporation Questionnaires (for portfolio customers only) You can now use Kudocs to build an online incorporation questionnaire to save you all the hassle of emails/ word documents going back and forth to your customers: Pre-complete as much
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