Confirmation Statement Filing in Tewkesbury Made Straightforward and Accurate

A confirmation statement, formally known as a CS01, is a filing made to Companies House that confirms the information held about your company is accurate as at the confirmation date. It covers things like the registered office address, directors, shareholders, statement of capital, PSC information and SIC code. Despite the name, it does not confirm your financial results — it is not annual accounts and it is not a tax return. The confirmation statement is a check on the company record, not a report on profit or tax.

Most UK companies registered at Companies House need to file a confirmation statement, including private limited companies, companies limited by guarantee and limited liability partnerships. This applies to businesses based in Tewkesbury and across the rest of the UK, and it applies whether the company is actively trading, dormant or simply not trading at present. Sole traders and ordinary partnerships that are not registered as companies do not have a Companies House company record, so the confirmation statement requirement does not apply to them. If you are unsure, checking your company's filing history at Companies House is the quickest way to see whether a confirmation statement is due.

A company generally needs to file a confirmation statement at least once every 12 months, even if nothing has changed since the last one. Companies House works to a review period, usually a 12-month cycle starting from incorporation or from the date of the last statement, and the deadline for filing is based on the dates shown on your company record. You can file earlier than the deadline, and you can file more than one confirmation statement within the same review period if your information changes — for example after a director appointment or a share transfer. The confirmation statement cycle is separate from your accounting period and from your annual accounts deadline.

Before filing, it is worth working through the main elements of your company record: the registered office address, the directors and any company secretary, the shareholders and statement of capital, your People with Significant Control information, and the SIC code that describes what the company does. You should also confirm that your statutory registers are in order, because the confirmation statement includes a statement about them. If any of those details have changed, the change may need to be reported to Companies House separately rather than simply being reflected in the confirmation statement, which is one of the reasons a professional review can be genuinely useful.

Yes. Dormancy normally removes certain accounting and tax obligations, but it does not remove the need to keep the Companies House record accurate, so a dormant or non-trading company will usually still need to file a confirmation statement at least once every 12 months. The confirmation statement does not ask for figures, so there is nothing to compute — but the details it confirms, such as the address, officers and shareholders, still need to be right. This is also why the confirmation statement should never be confused with annual accounts or a Corporation Tax Return, which follow their own rules and their own deadlines.

No — they are three separate filings with different purposes. A confirmation statement confirms the company information Companies House holds. Annual accounts report the company's financial position and performance for an accounting period and are also filed at Companies House. A Corporation Tax Return, usually the CT600, reports taxable profits and tax position to HMRC. Filing one does not satisfy the others, and their deadlines are not the same. A company can be fully up to date with its confirmation statement and still owe accounts or a tax return — and the reverse is also true.

If a confirmation statement is not filed, the company's record at Companies House stays out of date and the filing remains outstanding. Companies House expects companies to file on time, and persistent failure to file can have serious consequences, including action to strike the company off the register, with knock-on effects for the company's officers and its bank account. Because the requirement is generally annual rather than a one-off, letting one confirmation statement slip often leads to a backlog. The practical response is to bring the filing up to date as soon as possible rather than waiting for the next review period to come round.

Professional filing works in a few straightforward steps. You give us your company name and company number, and we review what Companies House currently holds against what should be there. We tell you what is accurate, what needs changing, and whether anything needs to be reported separately. We then prepare the confirmation statement, submit it, and confirm once it has been accepted so you have a clear record of what was filed and when. If it is easier, we can also keep an eye on your next review period so the filing does not creep up on you. To get started, simply send over your company details and we will take it from there.