Opening a business in the UK
While there is traditionally a strong history of trans-Atlantic cultural and economic exchange between the United States and the UK, there remain important legislative differences that could make a business expansion to the UK challenging.
This is where we come in.
Speak to UK business expertsHow we can help you get set up in the UK:
- We’ll help you explore options to find the best company structure for your situation
- You can base your company’s registered office at our business address
- We’ll share our expertise around taxes, filing of accounts and making sure you stay compliant
- We provide a full accounting service, including VAT preparation and filing, payroll function and filing of annual financial statements and corporation tax returns
- VAT registration
- Registration for corporation tax
- Registration of payroll scheme and auto-enrolment (the UK’s compulsory pension scheme)
- We can advise you in opening a UK bank account in the name of the UK company
- Introduction to partners who can assist in HR issues, corporate legal work and dealing with company insurance
- We can carry out anti-money laundering (AML) and know your client (KYC) checks
Why American businesses expand into the UK:
A trusted economic partner
A path to UK relocation
Access to a new market
Earn profits in a stable and traditionally strong currency
Let us help you register a company in the UK
Despite some similarities in organisational culture between the countries, there are significant legislative differences between running a company in the UK and the United States
Whether you plan to expand your business or are looking to start a business in the UK, neither option is simple and having a team of experts with knowledge about both countries’ tax legislation and banking registration requirements could be the difference between success and failure.
Whether moving your business or staying in the United States and expanding your business into the UK, our team in London is ideally positioned to ensure your interests are taken care of.
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Business relocation experts
Our team has over 20 years’ experience in helping people with their UK immigration, business relocation and cross-border financial needs. We are the perfect partner to help your business establish a presence in the competitive UK market.
As a company with an entrepreneurial background, we know what it takes to set up a thriving business in the UK – we did it ourselves. This experience allows us to offer our clients an integrated support package.
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Wealth
Sable Private Wealth Management Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority 222501. Sable Private Wealth (Pty) Ltd, an authorised FSP, is regulated by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority under licence number 48122.
Forex
Our forex service is registered with all of the relevant authorities globally. Sable International is a trading name of Sable International FX Limited (company number 07070528), registered in England and Wales.
We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK (FCA no. 517570) and the Financial Services Conduct Authority in South Africa (Sable International FX [PTY] Limited - FSP no. 41900).
We are registered as a Money Services Business with FinCEN in the USA (Sable International FX Limited -registration no. 31000236345657).
We meet the required capital and liquidity requirements required by prudential regulation. We also stand under the financial controls and KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and procedures of our corporate bankers and regulatory institutions.
As an FCA Authorised Payment Institution it is our responsibility to segregate funds. Where we are required to segregate your funds. We do this by placing the funds in a segregated account (known as a "safeguarding account") at Barclays Bank PLC.
We are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Instead, where we have segregated your funds in a safeguarding account, it means those funds would be separated from our other assets in the event of our insolvency and used to repay you and other clients.
Barclays Bank PLC provides us with safeguarding account(s) but does not monitor the funds we place in them or how we operate these accounts.
The funds of clients who utilise our Currency Solved service, backed by Currencycloud, are safeguarded by their FCA-regulated e-money partners at a credit institution.