Companies House

[jess131]

I need to remove a shareholder from my limited comany. I have logged into companies house but not sure how i remove a person. Can anyone help please.

[Buenchico]

I stand to be corrected here but, to the best of my knowledge, you can only amend the register of shareholders when you submit your annual confirmation statement.

[jess131]

Thats what I am tying to do. So if I proceed as normal should it give me the option to then remove?

[ck1]

I think you just have to buy their shares from them, if they're just nominal value it will just need a stock transfer form

[Buenchico]

All of the info on the Gov.uk points to this login page as the right place to be in order to change information about your company:
https://ewf.companieshouse.gov.uk//seclogin?tc=1
So if that's the route you've already taken, I'd expect there to be an option to do so at some stage.

(I've not run a limited company myself since the days when quill pens were regarded as modern technology so, regrettably, I can't advise you directly from personal experience of using the online service. Sorry)

[jess131]

Thanks folks. It will let me edit the shareholder but not delete them.

[Buenchico]

Can you set their shareholding to nil?

[brainiac]

Yes, you can set their shareholding to nil - that's what I did when I tried to edit the shareholder's information, as some of them (30 in a residents' association) had an 'edit' button, but others did not. Just set it to zero and the confirmation statement I was doing went through.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Thanks, Brainiac. It looks like we might have jointly solved the problem ;-)

[brainiac]

Yes, Chris, but I only got 1/7 in the quiz you will post later :(