A company must be up to date with it's Annual Return filing before it can apply to be struck off.On the other hand this company may have actually applied for strike off it if had stopped trading etc etc. This can be checked by looking at the submissions made by the company and if a form H15 was filed recently.
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I am closing down a company as it is no longer required. Returns etc. are all in order.
When I asked the accountant to to perform the closing down process, she used the term 'Strike off' as the proceedure. She said this has to be notified in a National newspaper.