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When your company or organisation pays Corporation Tax - paying, reporting and dormant companies
How to pay Corporation Tax: payment reference number, online, Bacs or CHAPS, Direct Debit, cheque or at your bank.
The deadline for your payment will depend on your taxable profits. This…
Set up and make changes to a Direct Debit through your company’s HM…
You can pay your Corporation Tax bill directly using your online or mobile…
You can pay HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) by Faster Payments, CHAPS or…
You can pay online. There’s a fee if you pay by corporate credit card or…
You can only pay at your branch by cash or cheque if you have a paying-in…
If your company is in a group, you can pay Corporation Tax under a Group…
Tell HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you have nothing to pay. HMRC will…
Check your HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) online account to see if your…
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Guidance, forms and manuals for Corporation Tax. Including preparing accounts, reliefs, filing returns, payments, charities and clubs, and non-resident companies.
What you need to do or know if your company is sold, stops trading or is being wound up for Corporation Tax purposes.
Working out your Corporation Tax rate and getting reliefs and other deductions from your Corporation Tax bill
Find statistics for Corporation Tax receipts and liabilities.
Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation
Check if your company can pay a reduced rate of 10% Corporate Tax if it exploits patented inventions and innovations.
How to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are between £1.5 million and £20 million.
Find out how to register for Corporation Tax as a non-resident company if you have sold, gifted or transferred interests in UK property or land.
Find out about paying Corporation Tax, instead of Income Tax, if you’re a non-UK resident company with UK property income.
Find out what the Corporation Tax for Agents online service is for, what you can do in the service and how to do it.
Corporation Tax and VAT for limited companies.
Find out how to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are over £20 million.
Your accounting period for Corporation Tax and Company Tax returns - financial years and accounting periods, changing accounting periods
Corporate tax rates and small profits thresholds from 2023.
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