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Annual accounts and corporation tax, filed on time

Statutory accounts to Companies House and the CT600 to HMRC, prepared from one set of books and signed off by someone qualified.

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The year-end clock3 deadlines

Corporation tax payment9 months + 1 day

Accounts to Companies House9 months

Company tax return (CT600)12 months

All measured from the end of your accounting period. Note the payment falls due three months before the return.

Where this bites

The payment deadline lands before the return

Corporation tax is due nine months and a day after the period ends, but the return is not due for twelve. Plenty of companies meet the bill at the point they file — three months after it should have been paid.

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The payment falls before the filingNine months and a day for the tax, twelve months for the return — the two dates are not the same

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Both filings must agreeCompanies House and HMRC want different things from the same year, from the same set of books

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Reliefs must be caught before year endOnce the period closes, some elections and capital allowance claims are no longer available

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The director’s loan account still needs watchingTracked through the year, not discovered once the accounts are being prepared

What’s included

One engagement, both filings

Companies House and HMRC want different things from the same year. We prepare both from one set of books, so the numbers agree and you sign once.

Statutory accounts

Prepared under FRS 102 or FRS 105, whichever fits the company.

Corporation tax computation

Trading profit, adjustments, capital allowances and losses.

CT600 and iXBRL tagging

Return, tagged accounts and computations filed together.

Filing at Companies House

Including the filleted version where the company qualifies.

Capital allowances review

What qualifies, what does not, and what to claim this year.

Director’s loan account

Tracked through the year, not discovered at the end of it.

Reliefs identified before year end

While they can still be acted on, not after the period closes.

A written summary

What the year showed, what you owe, and when it leaves the account.

The corporation tax payment is due before the return, not with it.
Corporation tax is due nine months and a day after the period ends, but the return is not due for twelve. Plenty of companies meet the bill at the point they file — three months after it should have been paid. We work the number out early, so you know it before it is owed rather than after.

How it works

Four steps, and you see the number before you file

Books in, questions outWe take the year as you kept it and come back with a short list of what is missing or unclear

Accounts and computation draftedPrepared together, so the statutory accounts and the tax figures agree

You review, we explainA walk through what the year showed and what is owed, before anything is submitted

Filed, and next year diarisedBoth filings submitted, with the following year’s dates already on the calendar

Fees

You will know the number before we start

Accounts and corporation tax sit inside a business engagement rather than being sold alone. Every engagement is scoped before it is priced, with one figure agreed in writing before anything begins. Never hourly, and never a percentage of anything. What it comes to depends on how the business is built and the condition of the books. The scoping and the quote are free. All quotes exclude VAT.

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Led byChartered Tax Adviser

FocusUK compliance

DeliveryRemote, by design

FeesFixed, up front

BillingNever hourly

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Next step

Tell us how the business is built.

A short set of questions about structure, people and where you trade. We come back with a scope and a fixed price. If we are not the right firm for you, we will say so rather than quote for it.

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