Setting Up Business Addresses for your Company #AskAMS

3 important addresses to consider when setting up your Limited Company.

When setting up a Limited Company, there are several types of business addresses to be considered:

• Registered Office – this is an official address where a Company’s statutory books are generally kept, and is where official documents are sent to.  It must be in the same country in which the Company was originally registered.  It is very common for a Company’s accountants to be the Registered Office (and we are Registered Office for most of our Limited Company clients) – although many small Companies use the main director’s home address as the Registered Office.
• Service addresses – Although directors have to inform Companies House of their home address, they can choose to stop this being visible to the public by electing to have a Service address.  A Service address is the official mailing address of a director and can be anywhere in the World – but, typically, it is the same as the Registered Office.  
• Trading address – This is the address where the Company’s business is based.  It is where invoices are sent to, and is where the business is physically run from.  It is also the address that has to be given to HMRC when a Company registers for VAT.

At AMS we are happy to be both the Registered Office and Service address for our clients - to help our clients retain privacy and also so that any official forms are sent to us in the first place.