GOV.UK, Strike off your limited company: keep business documents for 7 years after the company is struck off (GOV.UK, Strike off your limited company from the Companies Register: Close down your company, Keeping records)
The government's own guidance to directors closing a company by strike-off: keep business documents for 7 years after the company leaves the register, and the employers' liability insurance policy if it had staff.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“If the company employed people, you should keep copies of its employers' liability insurance policy and schedule. You should keep other business documents for 7 years after the company is struck off, for example bank statements, invoices and receipts.”
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