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Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
What it means to be dormant for Corporation Tax or Companies House - trading and non-trading, annual accounts, Company Tax Returns and telling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
If you’re due to file accounts with Companies House by the end of September, allow plenty of time before your deadline.
Find out about being 'active', trading and non-trading, and being dormant if you’re a new or existing company or organisation.
Find out about paying Corporation Tax, instead of Income Tax, if you’re a non-UK resident company with UK property income.
Find out how to work out payments and when you should make them if your company’s annual taxable profits are over £20 million.
When your limited company doesn't have to get its accounts audited, what you need to put on your accounts if you don't and what to do if shareholders ask for an audit
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
Information on the performance and expenditure of Companies House from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
Information on the performance and expenditure of Companies House from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.
The responsibility for your company’s money lies with you, the director.
Find out if you can use the free online filing service to file your Company Tax Return with HMRC and accounts with Companies House.
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