Registered Company Address and Tenancy Agreement

[manubbo]

I'm setting up my company and I need to give an address to use as registered company address.

My tenancy agreement, in my agreements as a tenant say that I agree:

- To use the premises only as a single private residence for the occupation of the tenant and not to carry on any formal or registered trade, business or profession there.

To me this seems to exclude the possibility of registering my company address at my current place. I did search a bit and I couldn't find many results talking about tenancy agreement that forbid this - do you know if this is common for tenancy agreement?

In the case I can't use my home address - I'm planning to use SJD as accountants, have you got any feedback about their registered office service?

Thanks

[northernladuk]

Just pay your dollah to SJD and use their address. A lot less hassle than breaching your tenancy contract plus changing it all when you move around. I got crap loads of junk mail when I started with my home address which dried up as soon as I started with SJD's so happy with that.

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[warrenboon]

Just pay your dollah to SJD and use their address. A lot less hassle than breaching your tenancy contract plus changing it all when you move around. I got crap loads of junk mail when I started with my home address which dried up as soon as I started with SJD's so happy with that.

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+1, I use SJD's registered office service, works for me.

[Greg@CapitalCity]

- To use the premises only as a single private residence for the occupation of the tenant and not to carry on any formal or registered trade, business or profession there.

Although most clients use our address as the registered office, I have never (ever) heard of a registered office address falling foul of the clause you mention below. In most cases the clause means "we don't want customers/clients traipsing in and out of your flat" - a registered office address isn't going to do that.

[Sockpuppet]

Although most clients use our address as the registered office, I have never (ever) heard of a registered office address falling foul of the clause you mention below. In most cases the clause means "we don't want customers/clients traipsing in and out of your flat" - a registered office address isn't going to do that.

As above. I wouldn't feel right having one of the specialist accountant firms as my registered address, mainly because it makes it a bit too obvious we're contractors. I like to play the gray man me, hiding in the open.

[VectraMan]

I've used my rented home as a registered office for a couple of years now. You could read that clause as also forbidding you from ever working at home, but in reality, you're only ever going to get into trouble with this sort of thing if you're actually trading from that address - i.e. having customers turn up, or having employees work there.

Pay an accountant if you like, but it's £100 or whatever per year to have someone forward probably two letters to you. It's not like you can use an accountants and keep your real address secret: your bank will want your real address, and your real address will be listed with CH as a director.

[Sockpuppet]

Pay an accountant if you like, but it's £100 or whatever per year to have someone forward probably two letters to you. It's not like you can use an accountants and keep your real address secret: your bank will want your real address, and your real address will be listed with CH as a director.

At CH you can list your service address as at the companies address so at least its not public record.

[Clare@InTouch]

I've used my rented home as a registered office for a couple of years now. You could read that clause as also forbidding you from ever working at home, but in reality, you're only ever going to get into trouble with this sort of thing if you're actually trading from that address - i.e. having customers turn up, or having employees work there.

Pay an accountant if you like, but it's £100 or whatever per year to have someone forward probably two letters to you. It's not like you can use an accountants and keep your real address secret: your bank will want your real address, and your real address will be listed with CH as a director.

As Sockpuppet says, you can hide your home address at CH by using your accountant as both your registered office address and service address. Your filing history will show your home address if you've ever had it on record, but there's nothing you can do about that.

Check with your accountant too, some don't charge for the service. Or somewhere like Regus, they do mail forwarding services for a small fee.