address changed after company closed

rahulparanjape1981

Hello,
I got my limited company closed through an accountant 1 year ago (who now says he has nothing to do with me and I must pay more if I ask him any advice 6 months after company is closed. I had paid him additional 600£ to close the company).
I was the only director/employee of the company and the registered company address was X. X was also my residence address which was a rented apartment. I moved out of the rented apartment to a new address Y, 6 months after the application for dissolution of company was made (the company is definitely dissolved). I am concerned now if there was any communication from HMRC/Companies house/ relevant authorities to X which I may have missed. (Accountant has taken his hands off and says nothing).

What should I do? Which authorities I need to inform to inform to send any company related communication? Please help! I am freaked out.

OhReally_2

rahulparanjape1981 wrote: »

Hello,
I got my limited company closed through an accountant 1 year ago (who now says he has nothing to do with me and I must pay more if I ask him any advice 6 months after company is closed. I had paid him additional 600£ to close the company).
I was the only director/employee of the company and the registered company address was X. X was also my residence address which was a rented apartment. I moved out of the rented apartment to a new address Y, 6 months after the application for dissolution of company was made (the company is definitely dissolved). I am concerned now if there was any communication from HMRC/Companies house/ relevant authorities to X which I may have missed. (Accountant has taken his hands off and says nothing).

What should I do? Which authorities I need to inform to inform to send any company related communication? Please help! I am freaked out.

If you are that freaked out then perhaps you should have looked into a mail redirection service?

But if the company is definitely dissolved, then it no longer exists so too late for anyone to contact it.

bris

If you are that worried about it see if you can log in to companies house and alter the registered address.

If you (the company) are owe anyone any money then they can ask companies house to set aside the closure, if that's what your worried about, but if not then ignore it.

toddle2u

If you are that worried about it see if you can log in to companies house and alter the registered address.

The company is disolved so he won't be able to do this. Disolved means the company no longer exists

If you (the company) are owe anyone any money then they can ask companies house to set aside the closure, if that's what your worried about, but if not then ignore it.

He is not the company. The company is a seperate legal entity that he was employed by.Companies House cannot simply set aside the closure the Director would need to apply to the Courts to have the company re-inststed to the Registrar

OP the company is disolved and no longer exists so do not worry about anything to do about it. Your accountant charged you £600 to disolve which would have cost you £10 and a stamp and completing a very simple Companies Hosue form (DS01)

Pennywise

toddle2u wrote: »

Your accountant charged you £600 to disolve which would have cost you £10 and a stamp and completing a very simple Companies Hosue form (DS01)

So you know for a fact at their accountant didn't spend time talking to them about it, didn't talk about the various options for paying out any remaining monies either as wages, dividends or capital, didn't prepare final accounts, didn't calculate the tax due (and consider any loss claims), didn't file tax returns, didn't deregister for VAT and file the final vat return, didn't deregister for PAYE and file final payroll returns and P45s, do you?

I'd agree that if all they did was complete and submit a DS01 form, then £600 is expensive, but in reality, I suspect they spent several hours talking to the client and dealing the technicalities and formalities to ensure an organised and pain free close down and striking off. We certainly spend an average of 2-4 hours on every single dissolution case, sometimes even longer. Generally we wouldn't charge that kind of money, but some firms have higher overheads such as city centre premises etc whereas we have a cheap office in a village!

At the end of the day you just don't know what was involved and it's pretty poor form criticise based on some vague assumptions. Like virtually everything these days, the average man in the street can do most things themselves if they're capable, willing and have the time & inclination to do a bit of googling. Some people choose to pay professionals to do it, others do it themselves. Horses for courses really!

If the OPs accountant charged what they quoted and did the work they quoted for, then there's no grounds for criticism if, after the event, the OP found they could have got someone else to do it cheaper or could have done it themselves.

rahulparanjape1981

Hello Pennywise,
The status I understand is as follows
> didn't talk about the various options for paying out any remaining monies either as wages, dividends or capital - YES
> Regarding final accounts and tax returns:
(There was no trading done after 31st March 2013 and final accounts were done 31st March 2013).
> did deregister for VAT and file the final vat return. - YES deregistered
> did deregister for PAYE (but no final payroll returns and P45s) - YES deregistered