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How to file your company annual accounts with Companies House

This research examines how companies with fewer than 4 employees work with clients, how they derive their income, and what they do with it.

• Updated: 18 January 2018

Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline

• Overview

  Your company’s annual accounts - called ‘statutory accounts’ - are…

• Micro-entities, small and dormant companies

  You might be able to send simpler (‘abridged’) accounts to Companies House…

• Corrections and amendments

  You can send amended accounts to Companies House: on paper through filing…

• Penalties for late filing

  You’ll have to pay penalties if you do not file your accounts and tax…

Tax and reporting rules for employers paying income tax on a directors' behalf

Find out about paying Corporation Tax, instead of Income Tax, if you’re a non-UK resident company with UK property income.

• Updated: 18 March 2021

What is a financial statement and why should directors maintain them?

• Updated: 7 July 2023

• Updated: 17 July 2025

Paying Corporation Tax when your limited company sells an asset for more than it paid - includes chargeable gains, intangible assets, working out inflation

Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company.

Working out your Corporation Tax rate and getting reliefs and other deductions from your Corporation Tax bill