the registered office is the corporate domicile and always needs to be stated in official documents.

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The trading address may or may not be the same as the registered office (the latter determines the country in which a company is registered, but not the former).
See, for example, http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/icc/icc_samp_over.html

Approved Operational Headquarters Company
APPROVED OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS COMPANY ( SECTION 60E ): The income
derived from the provision of qualifying services is taxed ...
www.hasilnet.org.my/WebLHDNE.nsf/0/ ff7940bc50281c5b482568b600176729?OpenDocument -

SALE OF CENDANT OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BUILDING HIGHLIGHTS ...
August 05, 2002. SALE OF CENDANT OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BUILDING HIGHLIGHTS
STRONG INTEREST IN SINGLE-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING. – Sonnenblick ...
www.sonngold.com/aug_05_02_content.html

Corporate Research E-Letter No. 25: Corporate Tax Avoidance
25, June 2002. Duty Free: US Corporations Move Their Legal Headquarters
to Bermuda to Avoid Paying Federal Taxes. by Philip Mattera. ...
www.goodjobsfirst.org/crp/jun02.htm

About Canon | Canon Inc. Corporate Profile / Board of Director
... Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Chief, Global Legal Affairs Coordination Committee Group Executive,
Corporate Intellectual Property & Legal Headquarters Senior General Manager ...
www.canon.com/about/outline/executive.html

Guiding Rules and Principles
... Section 1. Legal Headquarters TBMI will furnish a legal headquarters in the United
States and legal representation when needed on the foreign field for the ...
tabernacleministries.org/TBMI/RulesPrinciples/ ?section=policies






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Just saying \"office\" isn\'t enough, I think. Headquarters is the word most commonly used to indicate the \"sede\" or head offices of a company.

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Just saying \"office\" isn\'t enough, I think. Headquarters is the word most commonly used to indicate the \"sede\" or head offices of a company.

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I hate when that happens.

Sorry about the repeat.