Selling or closing a business
Find information on selling or closing a business.
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Help for management teams looking to buy their business
Information for management teams looking to buy their business including writing business plans, agreeing terms and conditions and arranging funding.
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Planning to sell your business (succession planning and exit readiness)
Information on selling your business when you plan to leave or retire.
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Selling your business: your responsibilities
Your responsibilities when selling your company, partnership or sole trader business, including legal responsibilities and finalising your tax affairs.
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Closing a business
Information about preparing to close or sell your business and closing the sale.
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Closing a limited company
How to close a limited company or allow to become dormant, including strike off, dissolution and voluntary liquidation.
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Stop being self-employed
If you've stopped being self-employed or are leaving a business partnership, you must tell HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Read about responsibilities, tax returns, and letting any employees know.
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Put your company into administration
How to put your limited company or limited liability partnership into administration – what administration is, appointing an administrator and when administration ends.
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Strike off your limited company from the Companies Register
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register.
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