When are my company accounts due?

Usually nine months after your accounting year end for Companies House, with corporation tax payable nine months and one day after. First-year deadlines differ.

Can I pay myself in dividends?

Only from retained profit, and it needs documenting properly. We’ll work out the most efficient split for your situation.

What if my company is dormant?

You still have filing obligations. We can handle dormant company accounts and confirmation statements cheaply.

Limited Company Accounts & Tax

Company accounts, done early and explained in English

Year-end accounts, CT600 corporation tax returns and director tax planning for small limited companies. Filed early, explained clearly.

Running a limited company comes with a set of obligations nobody mentioned when you incorporated. Annual accounts for Companies House. A corporation tax return for HMRC. A personal return for you as a director. All with different deadlines, all with penalties attached.

We take the whole lot off your plate.

What we do

Your year-end accounts, prepared and filed with Companies House. Your CT600 corporation tax return, filed with HMRC. Your director’s Self Assessment return. Prepared well ahead of time — not in the last fortnight — so there’s actually room to make decisions.

Key dates for a typical company: accounts are due at Companies House nine months after your year end, corporation tax is payable nine months and a day after, and the CT600 is due twelve months after. Your first year works differently. We’ll map your dates out so you’re not guessing.

Late filing at Companies House starts at £150 and climbs to £1,500. HMRC adds its own penalties on top. None of it is necessary.

The part that’s actually useful

Filing accounts is the minimum. Understanding them is where the value is.

So we sit down with you and go through it properly. What the business earned and where it went. What you’re owed and what you owe. Which costs you could legitimately be claiming and aren’t.

Then the director question that comes up every year: how should you take money out? Salary, dividends, pension contributions, or some combination. The right answer shifts with your profit level, your personal circumstances and whatever changed in the last Budget — so it’s worth revisiting rather than assuming last year’s split still works.

We’ll also cover capital allowances on equipment and vehicles, whether an electric company car stacks up, R&D relief if you’re doing qualifying development work, and how to plan for the corporation tax bill rather than being ambushed by it.

A change worth knowing about

From 1 April 2027, all company accounts must be filed using commercial software in iXBRL format. The Companies House web filing and paper routes for accounts are closing. If you currently file your own accounts through the website, that option is going. We already file this way, so for our clients it’s a non-event.