Confirmation Statement Filing in Herne Bay

A confirmation statement is a statutory filing made at Companies House that confirms the information held about your company on the public register is accurate and up to date. It is often referred to as a CS01, and it is not a set of accounts and not a tax return — it is a confirmation of company information such as your registered office, directors, shareholders, people with significant control, SIC codes and registered email address. If something has changed, you tell Companies House about it through the appropriate route, and the confirmation statement confirms the position as it stands.

Any company or limited liability partnership that appears on the Companies House register will normally need to file a confirmation statement, regardless of whether it is trading. That includes active companies, dormant companies, non-trading companies and companies with a single director and shareholder. Companies in Herne Bay are no different from anywhere else in the UK here. The requirement is about keeping the public register accurate, not about how busy or profitable the business is.

UK companies generally need to file a confirmation statement at least once every 12 months, based on the company's review period. The confirmation statement date normally falls 12 months after the previous one, and Companies House shows the date on your company record. You can also file more than one confirmation statement during a review period — for example, if information such as your shareholders, share capital or SIC codes changes and you want the register updated sooner rather than later. Filing extra statements is optional, but it can be useful when things move quickly. Your confirmation statement date is not the same as your accounting period or your annual accounts deadline, so it is worth tracking them separately.

The confirmation statement is where you confirm the core details Companies House holds: your registered office address, registered email address, directors and company secretary, shareholders and statement of capital, people with significant control, and your SIC codes describing your activities. It also includes confirmation that the company's intended future activities remain lawful. Some changes cannot simply be noted on the confirmation statement — for example, appointing or removing a director, changing the registered office, or allotting new shares usually needs to be reported separately using the relevant Companies House forms. If that applies to you, those updates are made first and the confirmation statement then reflects the corrected position.

In most cases, yes. Filing a confirmation statement is a separate requirement from filing accounts or paying tax, so a company that is dormant or not trading will normally still need to confirm that its Companies House information is correct at least once every 12 months. A dormant company may qualify for certain accounts filing exemptions, but that does not automatically remove the confirmation statement requirement. If you are unsure how the rules apply to your specific circumstances, it is worth checking your position on the company record or asking for guidance before assuming nothing needs to be filed.

They are two completely different filings. Annual accounts are the financial statements for your company — a profit and loss account, balance sheet and supporting notes prepared for an accounting period. The confirmation statement is not financial at all: it simply confirms that the information Companies House holds about the company is accurate and up to date. Each has its own deadline, its own submission process and its own purpose, and completing one does not satisfy the other. A company can be fully up to date with its confirmation statement and still have accounts outstanding, or the other way around.

No — they go to different places and cover different things. A Corporation Tax Return (often the CT600) is submitted to HMRC and deals with your company's taxable profits for an accounting period. A confirmation statement is submitted to Companies House and deals with company information such as directors, shareholders and addresses. Filing a confirmation statement does not mean your company has met its Corporation Tax obligations, and filing a tax return does not keep your Companies House record current. Both matter, but they are entirely separate pieces of work.

If a confirmation statement is not filed, Companies House may chase it, and sustained non-filing can put the company at risk of being struck off the register — quite apart from the fact that your public record will no longer reflect how the company actually looks. It is far easier to keep on top of than to fix later. Professional Confirmation Statement Filing takes the checking and the submission off your hands: your details are reviewed, the CS01 is prepared correctly, any supporting Companies House information updates are identified, and the filing is submitted so your record stays current. To get started, simply get in touch with your latest company details and we will take it from there.