[ommunist]

/Nursie - companies that provide registration services save time. If you have time, you can diy registration, right. But generally they provide very convenient service. Besides, services like 9-10 Adam Street can also provide you conference rooms, club place etc., in addition to registration. There are many companies that will help you open Ltd in the UK fast, and very few that will help you to close the once opened company.

Disclaimer: recently volunteered to help to shut down UK limited company, I wished I'd used someone else.

[mattmanser]

It literally takes 10 minutes to register a company yourself now, your advice is about 8 years out to date.

[Nursie]

I was just looking at the site linked from the howto and couldn't see what they were giving me that using companies house directly didn't, for the simple case of company registration.

I haven't been through shutdown yet, so I'll take your word for it (and everyone else's!) that it's painful...

[kybernetyk]

>I was just looking at the site linked from the howto and couldn't see what they were giving me that using companies house directly didn't

Worse they give you usually less as many formation companies keep the "webfiling auth code" for themselves and you will have to do all Companies House related administrative tasks through them (most likely for a fee).

Retrieving your webfiling code in that case is just hassle you wouldn't have had if you incorporated yourself in the first place.