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What is a Limited Liability Partnership? LLP Advantages and LLP Benefits: Establish an LLP Online

. The LLP is required to place documents (excluding the partnership agreement) on public file with the Registrar of Companies. The Registrar of Companies issues an incorporation document stating the LLP's name and registration number. Its address (registered office address), the names and addresses of the first members (partners), the names and addresses of the designated partners are held on public file. There are also annual filing requirements similar to those imposed on a company. The partners may be of any nationality and they may be natural persons or corporate bodies. Also like a partnership, tax is imposed on the members not on the LLP itself. Interestingly, if the partners are non-residents of UK, their income from the LLP is not subject to UK tax. The United Kingdom has many double tax treaties. However, access to treaty benefits for UK LLPs is determined by the residence of members. If the members are overseas in other offshore jurisdictions such as the BVI, Nevis, Panama or Seychelles then no double tax treaties exist.

Coddan CPM Ltd is a leading service provider for English and Scottish LLP registration. We will guide you through the process of registering your limited liability partnership and establishing your registered identity. All that you need to do to start you own LLP in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland is just to complete and submit our on-line application form. Coddan will take care about all other formalities. We offer Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) registration and filing of documents. If you are not residing in United Kingdom, or do not want to use you home address for LLP start-up, Coddan can provide you with the registered office address facility (in London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Belfast). We also offer nominee members service if you would like to remain anonymous from your LLP. 4-6 days Limited Liability Partnership incorporation for £125.00 (incl. LLP Agreement).

LLP formations usually completed in 4-6 days using Companies House business registration services. We supply expert advice in navigating English legal and business systems helping you to start business in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. If you have an idea for a business, we can also assist you in start-up your new business directly in the UK from the ground up. In the United Kingdom, you must register your business, which we can do for you. British, Scottish or Irish Limited Liability Partnership is a good idea for foreign entrepreneur and businessperson who want to enjoy the benefits of low or zero taxation and keep the benefits of the prestige of being incorporated in the Great Britain. Allow us to help you establish your Limited Liability Partnership and get it running, to select the best business for incorporation, or to register your LLP with the Companies House. Let us know how we can help.

Choose one of the following packages that will best serve you:
 This is our most popular package with UK residents, and includes:
 The filing and registration of your LLP
 The submission of forms detailing the LLP's executive members (partners)
 Incorporation forms (Form LLP2) do not require the signature of a Notary Public
 The formation of your LLP within 4-6 working days
 PPayment of legal and initiation fees
 The appointment of your own candidates as members for the LLP (a minimum of two people are required)
 
 The following documents will be posted to you (these documents will be sent via Royal Mail):
 The original laminated Certificate of Registration
 A hard bound copy of the Combined LLP Register
 A hard bound copy of the Partnership Agreement
 The Minutes of the First Members' Meeting
 Membership Certificates and completed Members' Register
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STARTING A LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP. ORGANIZING A UK LLP: STEPS TO START A GREAT BRITAIN LLP, REGISTERING LLP IN ENGLAND - FORMING LLP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

The key advantage of a LLP compared with a traditional partnership is that the members of the LLP (it is very important that they should not be called partners but members) are able to limit their personal liability if something goes wrong with the business, in much the same way as shareholders in a company have always been able to do. Of course anyone lending money to the LLP such as a bank may still require personal guarantees from the members, as they frequently do with shareholders in a company. We recommend reviewing this site in its entirety, so that you are knowledgeable of the UK jurisdiction and the powers granted to British LLPs.
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The LLP will be a separate legal entity and while the LLP itself will be liable for the full extent of its assets the liability of the members will be limited. The business is controlled by the designated members (who have a similar responsibility to a directors /secretary of a Ltd Company) and the members. An LLP is formed by two or more persons carrying on a lawful business with a view to profit and subscribing to the incorporation document LLP2.
The key advantage of a LLP compared with a traditional partnership is that the members of the LLP (it is very important that they should not be called partners but members) are able to limit their personal liability if something goes wrong with the business, in much the same way as shareholders in a company have always been able to do. The costs of setting up an LLP from £125.00.
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We will guide you through the process of registering your limited liability partnership and establishing your registered identity. Complete and submit application form. Adequate completion and submission of this form, along with the provision of payment, will enable Coddan CPM LTD to register your proposed UK LLP within five business days. We will express mail your LLP documents to the mailing address you specify in your incorporation order. If you have questions please E-Mail or call us: 0800 081 1510 or +44 (0) 207 637 3881, fax: +44 20 7681 3318.
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Where business owners have wanted to limit their personal liability in the past, they have normally set up companies and any profits made by those companies are subject to corporation tax. Dividends paid by the companies can then be taken as income of the shareholders. LLPs are taxed quite differently in that the profits are treated as the personal income of the members as if they had run their business as a partnership. The taxation of companies and partnerships is very different but taxation should not be the main consideration in choosing a business vehicle. However, we would be very pleased to discuss the impact of this in any particular case.

LLPs must produce and publish financial accounts with a similar level of detail to a similar sized limited company and must submit accounts and an annual return to the Registrar of Companies each year. This publication requirement is far more demanding than the position for normal partnerships and specific accounting rules may lead to different profits from those of a normal partnership.
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UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES

British Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) is an alternative corporate business vehicle that gives the benefits of limited liability but allows its members the flexibility of organising their internal structure as a traditional partnership. It has both corporate and partnership characteristics. Despite the advantages of a Partnership the unlimited nature of partners liability in an increasingly litigious world has prompted the arrival of Limited Liability Partnerships.

The LLP is a type of business vehicle which is new to the United Kingdom, although it is well established in the USA and has been available under legislation in Jersey since 1996.

The genesis of the LLP Act lies in the 1990s. During that decade, the increasing incidence and scale of actions against professional advisers for liability in respect of financial loss to stakeholders became a matter of acute concern. Audit firms in particular came to feel highly exposed, for two reasons.

First, since aggrieved creditors or investors of a failed company may seek redress against the company's directors or its auditors, it was felt by many in the audit profession that they, who are likely to carry substantial professional indemnity insurance, were being specifically targeted by litigants regardless of the level of their fault for the loss claimed. The cost to firms of defending actions rose sharply in the decade as did the cost of insurance. Second, under English and Scottish partnership law, each partner is jointly and severally responsible for the liabilities of the firm.
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UK LLPs from only £125.00! All Inclusive LLP Registration. Each Limited Liability Partnership package includes all statutory paperwork and is fully compliant with the LLP law.
All government and filing fees are included in the cost of our Economy pack. All certificates and documents will be sent directly to you by post immediately following the registration of your LLP.
It will take just 5 minutes to complete the online registration form, then your LLP could be up and running within 4-6 working days.

THE FOLLOWING UPGRADES CAN BE ADDED TO THE ABOVE PACKAGE:

1. LLP Pliers Seal - £20.00.
2. Domain Name Registration for two years - £16.00.
3. Provision of a Registered Office Address for 12 months - £50.00.
4. Provision of a Nominee Designated Member for 12 months - £125.00.
5. Certificate of Good Standing - £35.00.
6. Notarisation & Apostille of Documents.


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In the light of the increasing level of risk, it became harder for many in the larger firms to reconcile their firms' increasing size and specialization with the traditional partnership structure, in which all partners are agents of each other. Many felt that to require each partner in a large, highly specialised firm to accept unlimited financial responsibility for the actions of his or her partners had become an unrealistic proposition. It was speculated that, given the huge sums which were increasingly involved in negligence claims, the continuing exposure of partners to joint and several liability could deter the most talented young accountants from entering the audit profession. Were this fear to be realised, it could, in the long term, damage the quality of UK auditing and, in turn, the whole of the financial services sector.

Towards the end of 1996, the then President of the Board of Trade, following concerted lobbying by large audit firms, committed the government to bringing in a law to establish the LLP as a means of addressing these concerns. On the change of government in May 1997, the incoming Labour administration adopted this plan and the work on drafting LLP legislation continued without interruption. There has been extensive consultation with interested parties during the drafting process. The most important change which resulted from the consultation was to abandon the government's original plan to restrict access to the LLP structure to large, regulated, professional firms.

The presumption behind this proposed restriction was that, since it was the large, professional firms that had lobbied hard for the creation of the LLP, only firms in that sector needed to be considered as possible adopters of the new vehicle. It soon became apparent, however, that it would be unfair and restrictive to limit access to the new legal entity to firms with more than twenty partners and firms that conducted a particular line of business. It was, accordingly, agreed that the right to set up an LLP should be extended to firms of all sizes and which carried on business of any lawful type.

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