Register a company for VAT

VAT registration changes how you invoice, what you can reclaim, and how often you file. Registering voluntarily can be worth it if your customers are VAT-registered businesses and you have input tax to reclaim. It is usually a mistake if you sell to consumers, because your prices effectively rise by a fifth overnight.

When it is due

Within 30 days of the end of the month in which turnover passed the threshold, or at any time voluntarily.

What we do

• A conversation about whether you should register at all, before we take a fee for doing it
• Registration submitted to HMRC and the VAT number obtained
• The scheme explained and chosen — standard, cash accounting, flat rate or annual accounting
• Making Tax Digital compatibility checked, since VAT records must be kept digitally
• The registration certificate passed on and recorded

What happens if it is not done

Late registration means VAT is owed on sales made after the date you should have registered — whether or not you charged it to your customers. That is money out of margin, plus a penalty.

Questions

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.