Budget 2026: what it means for you and your business —
In short
Your company’s registered office address appears on the public register at Companies House, and for most owner-managed companies that means their home address is publicly searchable. We provide a registered office and director’s service address at any of our five offices, receive and forward your statutory mail promptly, and keep your home address private.
A registered office address at your choice of our five offices — Luton, Kettering, Leicester (Ibstock), Welwyn Garden City or Guernsey.
A director’s service address, which is the separate address that appears against you personally on the register.
Mail handling — we receive statutory post from Companies House and HMRC, scan it, and forward it to you promptly. Nothing time-sensitive is lost or delayed.
Compliance with the ECCTA “appropriate address” requirement — a registered office must now be an address where documents can be delivered and acknowledged. A PO box no longer qualifies.
Not for the registered office. Under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, a registered office must be an “appropriate address” — one where a document delivered would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting for the company, and where delivery can be acknowledged.
A PO box does not satisfy this. Companies House can, and does, take action against companies with an inappropriate registered office, including moving it to a default address and beginning strike-off.
Because it is permanent, public and indexed. Directors receive unsolicited mail, cold calls and occasionally worse. Historic records persist even after you change the address later — which is why using a service address from formation is far better than trying to remove your home address afterwards.
Five office locations to choose from, including Guernsey.
Mail scanned and forwarded promptly — nothing statutory gets missed.
ECCTA compliant — an appropriate address, not a PO box.
Bundled with company secretarial, so your filings and your address are handled together.
Simple fixed annual fee.
This page provides general information about the 2026/27 UK tax year and is not advice on your particular circumstances. Tax and regulatory rules change frequently. Please contact us before acting, or refraining from acting, on anything set out here. LMJ Group is a firm of Chartered Accountants regulated by the ICAEW. LMJ Group is not a registered auditor and does not provide audit services. Last reviewed: July 2026.
