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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
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…
The Common Chart of Accounts is the set of codes to be used across central government for financial reporting into the OSCAR system.
Sign in or set up a personal or business tax account, Self Assessment, Corporation Tax, PAYE for employers, VAT and other services.
Rules and requirements on filing annual accounts at Companies House for companies registered in the UK.
Find out what information you may be asked for by your account provider and how that information is shared.
'Dear Accounting Officer' letters provide advice on accountability, regularity, propriety, value for money and annual accounting exercises.
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
Find out how to report information to HMRC using the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) if you are a financial institution.
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