UK Ltd with Privacy Protection

Privacy, anonymity and safety: You are worried about having your name and address publicly listed and accessible to anyone. The names of the directors of any UK company are accessible to anyone over the internet using Companies House, the UK register of companies. You want to be preserve your anonymity and safety but also be the legal owner of your company and shares.

Local appearance: You want to have several directors in different places in order to have a more local appearance to your clients and partners.

Important correspondence taken care of: You don't want to have to worry about letters coming to your house that are not in your language and make you nervous. You don't want to have to bother forwarding these letters to the appropriate agents. If you travel a lot, you want to make sure important letters and deadlines are attended to while you are away. But you also want to be kept updated and have your correspondence anywhere you are. St Matthew eAccounting will either scan or forward any of your correspondence received.

In your language: You don't want to have to communicate with authorities and fill out forms in a language you don't understand and risk misunderstandings that could cost you. You want a partner who can take over these errands and make sure you have access to everything anywhere in the world, in your language.

Convenient and cheaper solutions

• Locally based in the UK: One of our UK-based specialists will become the director or shareholder of your UK Ltd. You may also want to appoint us as an additional director. In this case the corporation has two directors. This might be helpful to give a more 'local' and serious impression to your partners and customers.
• Less bureaucracy and less fees:  Having a nominee director or shareholder based in the UK will mean you only pay for our service and do not have to worry about foreign bureocracy and tax in this respect. Your nominee officers simply fulfil the legal requirement for a corporation to have one or more listed officers and can be a purely administrative matter to aid the management of your company.
• You have full control AND anonymity: We can hold the officer positions of the UK company on your behalf and you will have a general power of attorney. The nominee director does not engage in any business but will solely lend his name to your corporation. The director we provide has no access to the bank accounts of the corporations and cannot make any decisions. Your nominee officers do not touch any funds associated with your company. You can retain the signature authority over all accounts. Your nominees do not have access or signature authority over any corporate account.
• Complete confidentiality: If you require complete confidentiality in addition to the nominee shareholder service described above you may appoint us as your sole director. Our nominee becomes the registered holder of the respective shares, and no record of the true beneficiary then exists on the public record. We will not divulge the beneficiary’s true identity to any third party without the express consent of the client unless required to do so by court.
• Tax advantages: Limited companies often benefit from significant tax advantages when having a nominee director based in the UK as you will not incur foreign tax in most cases. 
• Withdraw any time: Have peace of mind. Not only are we providing the best solution but you can withdraw from this service at any time and make yourself the director or shareholder of the company again.
  

The easiest option is to purchase nominees to act as a company officer or as a subscriber during a company formation as we can then proceed with those persons in place from the date of incorporation.

Protect your privacy and identity

Many of our clients do not want their own names to be publicly listed. There may be reasons why you don’t want to appear on public records. These reasons may include:

• Your venture is still confidential – All company records are accessible by anyone over the internet. You may not want this as your venture is confidential and you don’t want your competition to know that you are starting up in Europe, at least not initially.
• You are separating or divorcing – You may want to protect your business assets or at least want to avoid complicated questions and procedures from your (ex) spouse and their attorney.
• You have a non-competition agreement – This forbids you to officially engage in this business.
• You have concerns about security – Especially wealthy clients sometimes prefer not to disclose their address details to the public record because of security concerns.

Whatever your legitimate reasons might be in not disclosing your personal information or involvement in the business, St Matthew eAccounting can help. When one of our UK-based specialists becomes the director or shareholder of your UK Ltd it is his or her name that is publicly listed instead of yours.

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