When an email came from Companies House inviting me to a free
Information Day in my home town, I decided to go because filing company returns
and accounts hold the same terrors as submitting VAT and tax returns,with big
fines if you muck up.
The smiling faces
of the Companies House staff, offering refreshments on arrival, immediately dispelled
all my fears. This is a non-profit making orgsanisation; their prices are coming down
this year when everywhere else prices are going up. As for the fines, they don’t
go into Companies House coffers but into those of the Treasury. The point of the
Information Day was to help new directors avoid giving money to the Treasury and offering some clever tips on avoiding trouble.
As well as all the practical
information, it was an entertaining afternoon too. We all loved hearing about
the tricks people get up to when forming a company – like making their dog the
director in order to avoid fines . Or their two-year-old son, arguing, “But
that’s all he ever wanted for his birthday – to become a company director!"
So if you’re an
author running a publishing company and get an invitation to go to one of these Information Days - go.
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