Confirmation Statement Filing in Crediton — Keep Your Companies House Record Accurate

A confirmation statement is a filing made to Companies House, usually submitted using form CS01, that confirms the information Companies House already holds about your company is correct and up to date. It is not a financial document and it does not report profit, tax or trading performance. Instead, it is your opportunity to check the public record — registered office, directors, shareholders, people with significant control and similar details — and either confirm it is accurate or update it. It is a separate filing from your annual accounts and from your Corporation Tax Return, even though the three are often due around similar times.

Any company registered at Companies House, including those with a registered office or trading base in Crediton, will generally need to file a confirmation statement. This applies to limited companies and LLPs, and it applies whether the company is busy, quiet, dormant or not currently trading. Because the requirement follows the company's registration rather than its level of activity, a company that has done nothing at all during the review period still normally needs to file. If you are unsure whether your particular company or structure is caught, it is worth checking your position rather than assuming the requirement does not apply.

UK companies generally need to file a confirmation statement at least once every 12 months, based on the review period shown on your confirmation statement. That review period is not the same thing as your accounting period or your annual accounts deadline, so it is worth keeping the two separate in your diary. Companies can also file more than one confirmation statement within a review period if information changes and they want the public record corrected sooner rather than later. The deadline for submitting the statement is determined by the end of the review period, so the safest approach is to check your company's own due date rather than relying on a general rule of thumb.

Before a confirmation statement is submitted, it is sensible to check the main details Companies House holds: your registered office address, the company name, your directors and any company secretary, your shareholders and share capital, your people with significant control, and your SIC codes describing business activity. Trading status and the address where records are kept may also need confirming. Importantly, some changes must be reported to Companies House separately and as they happen — for example certain director appointments or resignations and share allotments — rather than being held back until the confirmation statement is due. Where that is the case, we can help you deal with both the change notification and the confirmation statement.

Yes, in most cases. Being dormant or not trading does not normally remove the requirement to file a confirmation statement, because the filing exists to confirm the accuracy of the register rather than to report activity. Dormancy tends to affect other areas, such as whether statutory accounts are needed and how the company is treated for Corporation Tax, which are separate considerations. A dormant company with no changes to report will usually still need to confirm that its details remain correct, and any changes to directors, addresses or shareholdings should still be updated. If your company has been quiet for some time, it is worth confirming your specific position before assuming nothing needs to be filed.

No — they are three distinct filings with different purposes. A confirmation statement confirms that the information Companies House holds about your company is accurate and up to date, and it contains no financial figures. Annual (statutory) accounts are financial statements showing your company's performance and position, filed at Companies House for the relevant accounting period. A Corporation Tax Return, often referred to as a CT600, is submitted to HMRC to report taxable profits and calculate tax due. Filing one of these does not discharge your obligation to file the others, and the deadlines are calculated differently, so it is important to track each separately.

A confirmation statement is a legal filing obligation, and failing to deliver it can have consequences. Companies House can take action against a company that does not file, and persistent failure can ultimately result in steps being taken to strike the company off the register, which can affect bank accounts, contracts and the company's assets. Late or missing filings can also create difficulties when lenders, customers or counterparties carry out checks on your company. The exact outcome depends on the circumstances and on how quickly the position is put right, so the practical step is to deal with an overdue statement as soon as you become aware of it rather than leaving it further.

The process is deliberately simple. You share your company details and any changes that have occurred, we check them against the current Companies House record, we prepare the confirmation statement and submit it, and we confirm once it has been filed. If anything needs updating first — a director change, a new registered office, a share issue or a PSC update — that can usually be handled alongside the Confirmation Statement Filing so your record is correct in one go. To get started with Micro Entity Accounts, simply get in touch with your company name and your confirmation statement due date, and we will take it from there.