Reply to: Problems with Ltd Co being registered at Leasehold residence

[Ridds13]

Doesn't apply if registered address is your home.

Correct

[Ridds13]

You are not a real contractor if you don't have a nice plaque with your name on it!

I feel inadequate without a plaque! I must get plaqued.

[MrC]

Hi

has anyone had any challenge from their Leasehold management co in having registered their Ltd Co at their home address? I reside in a Leasehold apartment and carry on no business activity other than receiving my Ltd company mail at my home address.

I am being accused of breaching the "single residential dwelling condition" within the lease!

My lawyer believes there is no case to answer but I am interested if anyone else in the Contractor Ltd Co world has faced this.

PR

What does the freeholder want? Money for you using it? You to cease and desist doing so? To inflate their ego with another i'm-a-freeholder power trip?

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Also, do you properly display company name plaque in front of building/flat to comply with registration requirements???

Doesn't apply if registered address is your home.

[SueEllen]

Have you annoyed any of your neighbours or had any disagreement with a neighbour however small?

If you have then the freeholder will be looking at an excuse to challenge you on something in the lease.

The majority of freeholders do not care if you are running a business with no visitors and not making any noise.

Regardless I would suggest you get a virtual office address to register your business to so this is your registered address. (Accountants if possible or random virtual office service.)

However your trading address e.g. the address you work from, where HMRC sends the few reminders they can't send to your accountant or email you will still be the flat. There is nothing that your freeholder can legal do about this as your residence is also where the director lives which must be on public record and HMRC will send mail to the director.

[lilelvis2000]

"You don’t usually have to pay business rates for home-based businesses if you:"

Councils need extra revenues, they will argue why won't ebay sellers not pay business rates tax the same way the High Streets shops do?

I reckon this new scheme created by Chancellor today is just the ticket for councils to do just that. I'll just register my business at my accountants office...sorted...well as long as bugger doesn't lose the post that is.

[Fishface]

easy.

you have the official address for Companies House registered at your accountants.

and mailing address to where you decide.

If they ask move it.

[xoggoth]

Also, do you properly display company name plaque in front of building/flat to comply with registration requirements???

Haven't had to do that for years AFAIK.

PS Still got mine down the shed. After IR35 came in I always regretted having a company name of xxx Services Ltd.

[AtW]

Not aware on any contractor erecting plaques!!

You are not a real contractor if you don't have a nice plaque with your name on it!

[Ridds13]

Hi

its not a question of business rates its more about a breach of residential lease. I own the property under a lease - flat. I use the home address for my contractor address that's all and the Landlord is suggesting its not now purely residential which it absolutely is.
Not aware on any contractor erecting plaques!!
thanks

Hi

has anyone had any challenge from their Leasehold management co in having registered their Ltd Co at their home address? I reside in a Leasehold apartment and carry on no business activity other than receiving my Ltd company mail at my home address.

I am being accused of breaching the "single residential dwelling condition" within the lease!

My lawyer believes there is no case to answer but I am interested if anyone else in the Contractor Ltd Co world has faced this.

PR

[AtW]

Business rates are not applicable if you are working from home:

"You don’t usually have to pay business rates for home-based businesses if you:"

Councils need extra revenues, they will argue why won't ebay sellers not pay business rates tax the same way the High Streets shops do?

[meridian]

Business rates are not applicable if you are working from home:

https://www.gov.uk/introduction-to-b...orking-at-home

OP, is your registered office at home or at your accountant's? When you say "leasehold", do you mean that you rent or the body corporate of the leasehold on a property that you own?

[AtW]

What's coming soon is this - free data from the Companies House will be used by councils to locate locally registered businesses in residential areas that don't pay business rates...

Sounds like Plan B to start new cost efficient mail forwarding service

[NickFitz]

Also, do you properly display company name plaque in front of building/flat to comply with registration requirements???

Last time I looked into that, the current interpretation of the law was that the information must be visible to actual visitors to the premises, and therefore having it stuck up somewhere just inside the front door, where somebody could see it when the door was opened to them, was sufficient.

But IANAL. Maybe the government is collecting hundreds of millions of pounds in fines imposed on one-person businesses for not doing their bit to support Britain's thriving brass platemaking industry

[MrMarkyMark]

It would be a lot cheaper to just register it somewhere else with mail forwarded rather than pay legal fees...

Also, do you properly display company name plaque in front of building/flat to comply with registration requirements???

Can also be easier, if you are renting and therefore moving often.