Updates and corrections

What changed, and when it was checked.

Mistakes discoverable, corrections traceable, improvements visible. Found something wrong? Every journey has Report a problem, which reaches the desk with the page attached.

Editions

45

Checked in full

32

Partly written

13

Corrections

2

Last checked

6 November 2026

The log

1. 6 November 2026

   • Correction

     What it costs: the Places of Refreshment registration, £103.53 a year, was added to every total. It is now added only when you say you sell food or drink — and a sole trader’s data protection charge only once you keep customers’ details. Jersey’s first year for a company now matches the front.

   • Improvement

     Start a company and Work for yourself in Jersey, edition 2.1: the bank step now says a company need not wait on a bank to trade — an e-money account in its own name, such as Revolut Business, citing Revolut’s own terms — and that Jersey’s depositor compensation scheme covers the banks gov.je lists.

   • Improvement

     The tools, rebuilt: Am I ready says what to do next and why, and tells you when you are ready; Plan my start keeps your plan in view as you answer; Sole trader or company gives the verdict first and draws every pound both ways; What it costs prices every choice beside its totals.

   • Improvement

     Every drop-down in the Guidebook is its own — rounded, grouped, with “coming soon” said plainly, and a sheet from the bottom on a phone. A search that finds nothing says so, and hands you to Vyra.

   • Correction

     Employ someone in Jersey, edition 1.1: the step “The manpower return moves to the monthly return” showed the no-staff dates, 31 January and 31 July. Once you employ anyone, the manpower return goes on the combined employer return every month — the step, and the year wheel, now say so.

   • Improvement

     Sources: Guernsey’s rule that a company may, but need not, have a secretary now cites the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008, section 168, beside the law firm’s guide. Every source on the All sources page is marked official or not.

   • Improvement

     Words, explained: twenty-one words gained a line on what they are not; “controller” now leads only to beneficial owner. Test yourself became an exam in three levels — Foundation, Practitioner and Expert.

   • New

     Start a company in Jersey, edition 2.0: rewritten in the Government of Jersey’s own order — the registered office and its occupier, the director and the secretary, the nominated person, the business licence, Social Security, the bank, insurance, the manpower returns, the changes to report and the books to keep.

   • New

     New journeys: Sole trader or company?, Choose a registered office, Appoint a company secretary, Shares, Get a business licence, Employ someone, Social Security as an owner, Your company’s year, Keep the company’s records, Build it yourself first.

   • New

     New shelves: kinds of business, words explained, every form; and the tools — Plan my start, the sole trader or company calculator with Jersey’s tax and Social Security curve, what it costs, how much you need, am I ready, test yourself, and every journey as a printable kit.

   • New

     Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and the UK’s four nations: first editions wherever their own official pages could be checked; every gap is said plainly, and no place borrows another’s rules.