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How to file your company annual accounts with Companies House
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…
How to ask Companies House to extend your filing deadline if an unplanned event stops you filing your accounts.
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
Rules and requirements on filing annual accounts at Companies House for companies registered in the UK.
File your Company Tax Return with HMRC, and your company accounts with Companies House
Your company's financial year can run for more or less than 12 months - find out how to change it
How companies incorporated in the UK, or where the parent company is incorporated in the UK, can comply with UK accounting and reporting requirements.
How to file annual accounts with HMRC and Companies House
Get company information including registered address, previous company names, directors' details, accounts, annual returns and company reports, if it's been dissolved
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
How to send information to Companies House through our extensible markup language (XML) schemas, by purchasing software or developing your own.
This Data Usage Agreement for exploring differences in company accounts filed between Companies House and HMRC was agreed and put in place in 2018.
What to do if you’re a company director or an accountant who has to pay a penalty to Companies House for filing your company accounts late.
How to send your information to Companies House using our online services.
If you’re due to file accounts with Companies House by the end of September, allow plenty of time before your deadline.
We incorporate and dissolve limited companies. We register company information and make it available to the public. Companies House is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade .
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