{"id":2974,"date":"2021-01-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/im-21206"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:10:22","slug":"striking-companies-from-companies-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking companies from Companies Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a limited range of circumstances when a company can request to be removed from the register (known as being struck off). For example, a voluntary strike off can be requested by a dormant or non-trading company.<\/p>\n<p>A limited company can be closed down by getting it &#39;struck off&#39; the Companies Register, but only if it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hasn&#39;t traded or sold off any stock in the last 3 months. For example, a company in business to sell apples could not continue selling apples during that 3 month period but it could sell the truck it once used to deliver the apples or the warehouse where they were stored.<\/li>\n<li>hasn&#39;t changed names in the last 3 months<\/li>\n<li>isn&#39;t threatened with liquidation<\/li>\n<li>has no agreements with creditors, e.g. a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the company does not meet these conditions, then the company will need to be liquidated (also known as a &#39;winding up&#39;).<\/p>\n<p>Before applying for a strike off, the company must be legally closed down. This involves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>announcing plans to interested parties and HMRC<\/li>\n<li>making sure employees are treated according to the rules<\/li>\n<li>dealing with business assets and accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style='font-size:smaller' class='im_source'>Source: Companies House   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a limited range of circumstances when a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Striking companies from Companies Register - One Accounting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are a limited range of circumstances when a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Striking companies from Companies Register - One Accounting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are a limited range of circumstances when a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"One Accounting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-21T04:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-11T11:10:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/9ed15fed-8949-4e65-ab36-ee75e10b477d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/846d7ee0fcbd148e3fd1aa38300917d3\"},\"headline\":\"Striking companies from Companies Register\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-21T04:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-11T11:10:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/\"},\"wordCount\":201,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/striking-companies-from-companies-register\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/9ed15fed-8949-4e65-ab36-ee75e10b477d.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Corporate Governance &amp; 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