If your company has been struck off by Companies House

• We can restore your company to the register under the administrative restoration procedure within a week after obtaining the Treasury Solicitor waiver letter.
• The Treasury Solicitor waiver letters are currently coming through in about a week to ten days.
• We will apply to the Treasury Solicitor first and tackle the other problems in the meantime:

Other problems

• Preparing outstanding accounts.
• Preparing outstanding forms CS01 Confirmation statements; earlier versions: AR01 Annual Returns.
• Preparing form RT01 Application for administrative restoration to the Register.
• Securing payment of:
• Treasury Solicitor's fee £69.00.
• Outstanding Companies House penalties up to the date of striking off.
• Penalties stop increasing from the date the company is struck off.
• Companies House restoration fee £100.00.
• Form CS01 Confirmation statements/AR01 Annual Return postal filing fees at £40.00 each year.
• Companies House recommend filing everything together to avoid generating administrative difficulties and unnecessary correspondence with Companies House.
• Our fee is £150.00 + VAT
• So that is:
• official fees £169.00
• our fee £150.00
• + VAT on our fee £30.00
• Total £349.00
• + Companies House Penalties.
• + Preparing outstanding returns and accounts - fixed price by quotation.
• All costs, apart from penalties, are allowable deductions for Corporation Tax.

Companies House write to us confirming the restoration

• The company immediately appears in the online record as active.
• A notice is published in the London Gazette.
• Your bank pick this up and reactivate your bank account; releasing any frozen funds.
• The company continues as if it had never been struck off.
• but references to striking off and restoration remain in the company filing history on the public record.

Administrative restoration - Applicable law and legal considerations:

Apply within six years of striking off
Otherwise application must be made to the court and will only be allowed for personal injury claims.

Sections 1000 & 1001 of the Companies Act 2006
The company was struck off the Register under the power of the Registrar to strike off a defunct company.

Section 1024 of the Companies Act 2006
We apply for the company to be administratively restored to the Register.

bona vacantia; owned by The Crown as otherwise ownerless property

• Property of the company becomes vested bona vacantia.
• The Crown representative; the Treasury Solicitor,
• has signified to the Registrar; Companies House,
• in writing; the Treasury Solicitor waiver letter,
• consent to the company's restoration.

If The company cannot be administratively restored and you only want the funds from a frozen bank account

• Where the company can be restored but not under the administrative restoration procedure; above.
• and
• You do not want the company for anything in the future.
• What you do:
• You undertake not to apply for restoration in the future.
• Apply to: The Bona Vacantia division BVD of the Government Legal Department.
• For a discretionary grant. No-one has a right to a grant.
• Paid from funds which Bona Vacantia division BVD have received from the company’s bank.
• The maximum grant is £3,000.
• Subject to a costs deduction £300.
• If the grant is over £750 - Subject to an additional 5% deduction.
• Making a claim:
• As long as the company was solvent when it was dissolved.
• Former shareholders ‘members’ or former appointed insolvency practitioners only:
• Complete and submit a form DG2