Reopen Dissolved Bank Account

[woger]

I've sent a request to Companies House to restore a recently dissolved company but not sure the next process is to open the closed/frozen company account. Could you please help. Thanks, Roger

[Clare@InTouch]

Wait until it's restored and then call the bank? The bank should then unfreeze the account.

[NickNick]

Don't you need a bona vacantia as well?

[Craig at Nixon Williams]

You will need a Bona Vacantia waiver letter before you will be able to get the money back into the bank account –you can apply for this letter by completing a BVC14 form. You will also need to submit any outstanding information to Companies House together with the RT01 form.

Craig

[northernladuk]

How much did you leave in the account?

[tractor]

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You will need a Bona Vacantia waiver letter before you will be able to get the money back into the bank account –you can apply for this letter by completing a BVC14 form. You will also need to submit any outstanding information to Companies House together with the RT01 form.

Craig

Also, I believe your corporation tax and account filing affairs need to be up to date before the Treasury Solicitor will release the funds (after his cut of course).

[Craig at Nixon Williams]

Also, I believe your corporation tax and account filing affairs need to be up to date before the Treasury Solicitor will release the funds (after his cut of course).

It is only the filing obligations with Companies House that need to be sorted, unpaid tax wouldn't stop it from being re-opened.

If there is unpaid tax, HMRC should have blocked it from being closed in the first place - though I suspect they don't pick up on this often.

[tractor]

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It is only the filing obligations with Companies House that need to be sorted, unpaid tax wouldn't stop it from being re-opened.

If there is unpaid tax, HMRC should have blocked it from being closed in the first place - though I suspect they don't pick up on this often.

Probably because at the point of last filing, the tax is not usually yet due.

[Craig at Nixon Williams]

When a company gets stuck off at Companies House, it gets published in the London gazette so that any creditors can object to the striking off if they are owed money. If HMRC objected to any company that hadn’t filed final accounts and collected the appropriate tax, it’d probably raise tax revenue more than IR35. But that wouldn’t be hard given how much IR35 raises.