Every Monday morning, we publish an updated list of every PLC in the UK that has failed to file its accounts on time. Sometimes a company is on the list because of a Companies House delay/error. More often, it’s because the company is troubled, bust, or incompetent. And occasionally it reveals an active fraud. Despite […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
One man has set up a series of fake banks on Companies House – with real bank names, no checks, and zero consequences. When he’s caught, he does it again. And he’s been facilitated by a legitimate incorporation agent that, for reasons we don’t understand, incorporated an obviously fraudulent fake bank for him. This report […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
A new analysis by Tax Policy Associates shows that 900,000 UK companies have no UK directors – all their directors live abroad. This is permitted by current UK company law – but our analysis finds that these companies are seventeen times more likely to show signs of fraud than companies with at least one UK […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
Many fraudulent companies at Companies House are run by entirely fake directors – non-existent people with fabricated identities. But many others are fronted by “muppet” directors: real individuals, often recruited through Facebook, who lend their names to companies they don’t actually control. The true masterminds behind the fraud remain in the shadows. From next month, […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
A mining giant claiming £4bn in revenue, certified by a fake auditor on 128 pages of meticulously detailed fake accounts. A bank with a login page that can’t log anyone in. A trust holding $327bn in Tsarist gold that never existed. Even endorsements from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Nadhim Zahawi, and Baroness Mone […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
We’ve been reporting on the shockingly brazen accounting frauds that slip through Companies House. Our new web-based fraud-finding tool takes just a few clicks to expose suspicious companies. We hope it’s useful to everyone interested in uncovering fraud, and helps illustrate how easy it would be for Companies House to do a better job of […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
We’ve created an automated search tool that crawls Companies House data to find companies with fraudulent accounts. It’s found hundreds of dubious companies, the worst of which claims £100 trillion of assets. Our findings suggest that Companies House is asleep at the wheel. But they also show that it would be straightforward to clean things […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
Avis Capital Limited is one of the largest companies in the UK. It says it was spun out from Avis (the car hire company), is FCA-regulated and has £58bn of net assets. It promises investors a 31% return. But all of this is a lie. Avis Capital’s accounts are a work of fiction. It’s completely […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
This page contains an automatically-updated list of every public limited company that’s missed the deadline for filing its confirmation statement. Listed companies are highlighted in yellow, and FCA-regulated companies in red. The confirmation statement used to be called the “annual return” – it’s simply a short confirmation that the company’s details held with Companies House […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
This page contains an automatically-updated list of every public limited company that’s missed the deadline for filing its statutory accounts. Listed companies are highlighted in yellow; FCA regulated companies in red. You can click on each column to sort it, and click on a company name to jump to its Companies House entry. Note that […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
From 18 November 2025, Companies House will introduce compulsory identity verification for all individual directors of UK companies and persons with significant control (PSCs). This new process is part of a broader effort to make the Companies House register more secure, accurate, and trustworthy—and to help prevent fraud and misuse of company information. This articleContinue reading "New Requirements to Verify Your Identity With Companies House" The post New Requirements to Verify Your Id...| LegalVision UK
The US Department of the Treasury has opened a request for comments on ‘innovative or novel methods, techniques or strategies that regulated financial institutions use, or could potentially use, to detect illicit activity involving digital assets.’ The move fulfils a requirement under the relatively high-profile Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act), […]|
A shelf company, also known as a ready-made company, is a pre-registered limited company that has been ‘left on the shelf’ for a period of time before being sold. Shelf companies are created by agents and sold to entrepreneurs who want to quickly begin trading through a company. Historically, they were the fastest way ofContinue reading "Shelf Companies: Legal Benefits and Considerations" The post Shelf Companies: Legal Benefits and Considerations appeared first on LegalVision UK.| LegalVision UK
Switzerland’s Federal Statistical Office and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) have teamed up to integrate business registry data directly into the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) records of Swiss businesses. GLEIF is a non-profit organisation that oversees and champions the use of Legal Entity Identifier (LEIs) – 20-character alpha-numeric codes that enable unique identification of […]|
This article explains the PSC regulations that require companies to disclose key controllers and the importance of maintaining an accurate PSC register.| LegalVision UK
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 aims to enhance corporate transparency and combat economic crime in the UK. The post UK Corporate Transparency Reforms: What you need to know appeared first on Bolder.| Bolder
At the end of December 2017, we published the financial statement for DOAJ including the anticipated figures for 2017. Here is the actual financial statement: DOAJ Financials 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and, 2017 actual All finances are disclosed in full at the Companies House web site.| Infrastructure Services for Open Access