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How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
When you set up your limited company, you automatically get different…
File 2 Company Tax Returns if your company started trading on the same day…
Limited companies can be ‘dormant’ for Corporation Tax between setting up…
Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline
Your company’s annual accounts - called ‘statutory accounts’ - are…
You might be able to send simpler (‘abridged’) accounts to Companies House…
You can send amended accounts to Companies House: on paper through filing…
You’ll have to pay penalties if you do not file your accounts and tax…
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
After the end of its financial year, your private limited company must…
You file your accounts with Companies House and your Company Tax Return…
You can apply to extend your accounts filing deadline with Companies House…
How to file your company annual accounts with Companies House
Rules and requirements on filing annual accounts at Companies House for companies registered in the UK.
How to ask Companies House to extend your filing deadline if an unplanned event stops you filing your accounts.
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
How to file annual accounts with HMRC and Companies House
File your Company Tax Return with HMRC, and your company accounts with Companies House
How to send information to Companies House through our extensible markup language (XML) schemas, by purchasing software or developing your own.
How companies incorporated in the UK, or where the parent company is incorporated in the UK, can comply with UK accounting and reporting requirements.
Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
How to send your information to Companies House using our online services.
Use this form to submit dormant accounts for a company limited by shares.
How to access public data from the Companies House register using our data products.
How to manage your annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and Corporation Tax if your non-trading or dormant limited company starts trading again.
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