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 "name": "Your Company Formations",
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 "vendor_domain": "yourcompanyformations.co.uk",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Tax & compliance",
 "summary": "Online UK company formation agent: forms limited companies, LLPs, PLCs and other company types, with optional London registered office and service addresses, mail forwarding, VAT registration and annual filing services, for UK and overseas founders.",
 "best_for": "UK and overseas founders who want to form a UK limited company online for a small fee, with the option of a London registered office and service address instead of their home address",
 "skip_if": "you are comfortable incorporating directly with Companies House and using your own address; or you need tax or legal advice, which a formation package does not replace",
 "honest_knock": "The £2.48 headline leaves out the £100 Companies House fee and 20% VAT on the package, and every basket starts with a £5.99 review you have to remove yourself. The address and filing services in the bigger packages renew every year, at £28 to £128 each. And the terms tie refunds to the services ordered and say cancellation may be subject to a minimum contract duration.",
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  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "£2.48",
  "entry_price_terms": "Digital · one-off, per formation, excluding 20% VAT",
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  "notes": "(read 2026-10-18 in a browser on yourcompanyformations.co.uk/packages/compare-packages/, prices in pounds) One-off packages for forming a UK limited company, each plus the £100 Companies House incorporation fee, which is added separately. VAT at 20% applies to the package price and paid extras but not to the Companies House fee. Digital is £2.48: formation and official digital documents by email. Digital & Print is £6.98 and adds printed copies by post. Privacy is £17.48 and adds a London EC1 registered office address and a director's service address. Fully Inclusive is £44.48 and adds business mail forwarding, VAT registration and a Premium 12 Month Company Filing Service. Non-Resident is £98.48, with London address services, VAT registration, filing support and international document postage. Entrepreneurs is £315.00, with London address services, VAT and PAYE registration, filing support and 12 months of call answering. Identity verification for Companies House (ACSP service) is included for up to four officers. Every basket starts with a £5.99 pre-submission review that you can remove at checkout. The yearly services renew at a price: the registered office address £29 a year plus VAT, the director's service address £28, business mail forwarding £98, and the Premium filing service £128 a year excluding VAT, with the £50 Companies House confirmation statement fee paid separately. Other company types, such as limited by guarantee, charity, property management, right to manage, LLP and PLC, have their own packages.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-18",
  "source_url": "https://www.yourcompanyformations.co.uk/packages/compare-packages/"
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   "evidence": "The yearly services renew at a price: the registered office address £29 a year plus VAT, the director's service address £28, business mail forwarding £98, and the Premium filing service £128 a year excluding VAT, with the £50 Companies House confirmation statement fee paid separately.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-18",
   "source_url": "https://www.yourcompanyformations.co.uk/packages/compare-packages/"
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  "name": "Companies House",
  "why": "Companies House, the UK registrar, also lets you incorporate a company online yourself. A formation agent adds a guided process, identity verification for up to four officers and, from the Privacy package at £17.48 upward, a London address for the public register. If you need none of those, compare the total with filing directly; if you live outside the UK or do not want to use your home address, the package does real work."
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  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
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   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
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