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File dormant company accounts
Accounts for a company that has had no significant accounting transactions in the financial year.
Dormant has a precise meaning: no significant accounting transactions during the period. Paying a filing fee from the company account, or receiving a single invoice payment, can break dormancy — and then the company needs full accounts instead.
When it is due
Within nine months of the company's accounting reference date, every year the company is dormant.
What we do
- A dormancy check before anything is filed, because getting this wrong is expensive
- Dormant accounts prepared and filed at Companies House
- HMRC notified that the company is dormant for corporation tax where appropriate
- The confirmation statement handled alongside, since both fall due each year
What happens if it is not done
Late accounts carry an automatic penalty that doubles if it happens in consecutive years, and the penalty is the company's debt. Persistent failure leads to strike-off and to the directors' conduct being on record.
Questions
My company has never traded. Do I still file?
Does paying the Companies House fee break dormancy?
Should I just close the company instead?
Related
- Confirmation statement — The annual filing that confirms the information Companies House holds about your company is correct. Due every year whether or not anything has changed.
- Identity verification — Directors and people with significant control must have a verified identity. We verify you as an authorised corporate service provider.
- Director appointments and resignations — Filing an appointment, a resignation or a change of a director's details at Companies House, with the statutory registers updated to match.
- Change of company name — Changing a registered company name by resolution, with the new certificate issued by Companies House.
- Issue of shares — Allotting new shares — to bring in an investor, reward a joiner, or restructure who owns what — with the return of allotment filed at Companies House.
- Transfer of shares — Moving existing shares from one holder to another — stock transfer form, board approval, register of members and the next confirmation statement.
Dormant company accounts
£99 + VAT
No Companies House fee applies to this filing.Every fee is on the pricing page. Statutory fees are passed on at cost.
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