Shares and shareholders
When you incorporate, you must provide details of all company shares and shareholders. As changes occur, you must update this information on your own share register and in your company's annual return.
- What it means to be a shareholder Find out about the rights and responsibilities of shareholders.
- Registering a shareholder The steps to follow when registering company shareholders
- Filing director and shareholder consent forms How to manage your director and shareholder consent forms.
- Issuing shares in a company Find out how companies issue and record share details.
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Managing share allocations
Find out how to manage the allocation of shares in your company.
- Updating a shareholder's details How to keep your shareholders' personal and shareholding information up to date.
- Distributions to shareholders Before a company can pass on its after-tax profits to shareholders it must satisfy the solvency test.
Other help topics
Before you start a company
Starting a company
Keeping company details up to date
Company directors
Filing annual returns
Complying with the law
Financial reporting
Managing an overseas company in New Zealand
Closing a company
Restoring a company to the register
When your company fails
Managing your online account
Getting support to use the Companies Register
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