Companies house is rolling out new identity verification requirements for directors and persons with significant control (pscs) to enhance the integrity of the uk's corporate register and tackle economic crime. I have a two director accountancy limited company (myself and wife) The objective of this change is to enable more efficient and secure filings for companies and to improve the quality of data that is held on the public record In addition, the eccta contains measures to enable this to happen The recent companies house (coho) changes have continued to be a popular topic on any answers. I would be interested to hear experiences of anyone filing anything at companies house today.
Once you are registered initially, registration as an acsp will allow you to carry out identity verification (idv) for clients, to meet the new companies house requirements It is expected that verification of identity will become mandatory from autumn 2025, so early registration is designed to allow firms to prepare by getting authorised as acsps and learning about what is required to verify. Companies house have provided a little more information on registration as an acsp (authorised corporate service provider) From 25 february 2025, you can apply to become an acsp using our new ‘apply to register as a companies house authorised agent’ service. It has been announced today that from 13 october 2025, customers will need to use gov.uk one login to sign in to their companies house webfiling account.
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