Another company using my rented flat addr as it's registered company address

[Darren@UptonAccountants]

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You could get a current appointments report from Companies House online system, this will give you the identity and addresses of the company directors.

Write to them and demand the company be moved within 7 days.

Also, write to the fraud department at Companies House advising that the company is illegally using your address. They'll then follow it up with the directors but hopefully writing to the directors will solve it quicker.

HMRC should then pick up the address from any changes at Co House.

[SueEllen]

How can I make sure nobody else including the flat owner is not using this address for any credits? I am bit worried that could affect my credit history.

Doesn't affect your credit history your credit history is linked to you not your address.

However some companies, if they repeatedly get scammed by people in one particular area, will refuse to deal with addresses in that area.

[rootsnall]

Don't HMRC pursue them in aussieland ?

There is a taxation treaty in place.

They should but they are useless and don't. I know somebody who did it, never heard a dickie bird. Jailing a few Aussies for fraud would probably sort it out and be popular with the electorate.

The Oz tax people are pretty switched on and I'd be surprised if they didn't try to track you down if you did it over there. The problem would be when they had to liaise with our useless shower and it would go into the black hole.

[meridian]

Don't HMRC pursue them in aussieland ?

There is a taxation treaty in place.

That's a double-taxation treaty, not a treaty for collection of tax in another jurisdiction.

There is legislation in place in Oz so that HMRC can collect from an evader there but HMRC have to get a court order in Oz to be able to enforce it like any other creditor, they can't just waltz in and clear an account out.

The problem for HMRC is that they don't know that any tax is being evaded. The companies aren't likely to be registered with HMRC, no tax returns are furnished, the director's names probably aren't even real (not an offence under the Companies Act last time I checked, but that was a few years ago).

Too much trouble for Her Madge to go to when there are easier pickings to be made here....

[BoltonLad]

How about the company? Most likely they've just moved but forgotten to tell the person who's sending the letters. They are probably wondering why their tax letters aren't arriving.

When they send company name change details to HMRC, they would have changed it if they have the intention to do so.

I believe that they want to use it.

[BoltonLad]

You could get a current appointments report from Companies House online system, this will give you the identity and addresses of the company directors.

Write to them and demand the company be moved within 7 days.

Also, write to the fraud department at Companies House advising that the company is illegally using your address. They'll then follow it up with the directors but hopefully writing to the directors will solve it quicker.

HMRC should then pick up the address from any changes at Co House.

Thanks Darren.

Even though on their website, they had mentioned a place near Gatwick, "Contact us" page has only email id.

[BoltonLad]

Doesn't affect your credit history your credit history is linked to you not your address.

However some companies, if they repeatedly get scammed by people in one particular area, will refuse to deal with addresses in that area.

Thanks SueEllen for your input.

[mudskipper]

Recently(2month back) rented a flat near client location. I received a letter from HMRC with a new company name. I opened it to make sure someone who knew all the internal details of my ltd company did not change it by mistake.

The letter from HMRC confirmed the name change and also the request was sent after we moved in to the new flat.The company exists with proper web site and providing consulting services. Not a contractor's limited company.

Even yesterday I received another letter from HMRC with other details.

Whom (except HMRC) should I inform now that the company is using our rented flat address for it's business? what proofs I can provide apart from my rental agreement?

How can I make sure nobody else including the flat owner is not using this address for any credits? I am bit worried that could affect my credit history.

Any advice?

May or may not be relevant, but I set up my company at the beginning of October when Companies House were doing their big system upgrade. Long delays (2 weeks) in getting set up, and when it did come through it was registered to an address in Milton Keynes which had nothing to do with me. SJD (who dealt with the setup) got it fixed for me and emailed me to say that company formations were sent through in batches, and that, following the upgrade, all the companies in a batch were being registered to the address of the first. Just wondering if something like that has happened here - your address being the first in the batch.

[minestrone]

Don't HMRC pursue them in aussieland ?

There is a taxation treaty in place.

HRMC could not chase a tulipe out of their arses

[BoltonLad]

May or may not be relevant, but I set up my company at the beginning of October when Companies House were doing their big system upgrade. Long delays (2 weeks) in getting set up, and when it did come through it was registered to an address in Milton Keynes which had nothing to do with me. SJD (who dealt with the setup) got it fixed for me and emailed me to say that company formations were sent through in batches, and that, following the upgrade, all the companies in a batch were being registered to the address of the first. Just wondering if something like that has happened here - your address being the first in the batch.

My company is registered at a different address which is permanent address.

The HMRC letter refers to a recent correspondence received at this office advising them of a change in the company name.

As others mentioned, it looks to me (looking at their website) someone who is not actually based in the UK is using our address with XXXXX.co.uk domain name.