Company Secretarial Services & Confirmation Statement Filing
Your Companies House records, kept in order.
Every limited company has filings beyond its accounts. We review and file your confirmation statement each year and keep your Companies House records up to date when directors, shareholders or addresses change.
Is this the right support?
- Every limited company and LLP that wants its statutory filings handled
- Companies adding or removing directors or shareholders
- Directors who need help with Companies House identity verification
- Companies with a dormant year or winding down
The work itself.
- Reviewing and filing your confirmation statement every year
- Appointing and removing directors and company secretaries
- Share transfers, new share allotments and updating the register of members
- Keeping the register of people with significant control (PSC) up to date
- Changes of registered office address or company name
- Help with director and PSC identity verification at Companies House
- Dormant company accounts, and striking off a company you no longer need
How to file a confirmation statement
You can file it yourself online, or we can file it for you. Either way, these are the steps:
- 01Check your confirmation dateFind it on the Companies House register. You must file within 14 days after the end of each 12-month review period.
- 02Get your company authentication codeThe six-character code is posted to the registered office. Request it early if you have lost it, as it can take up to 10 working days.
- 03Review the information Companies House holdsDirectors, registered office, SIC codes, shareholders and people with significant control. Note anything that has changed.
- 04File any changes firstDirector appointments, resignations and address changes are filed on their own forms before, or alongside, the statement.
- 05Confirm and payConfirm the details online and pay the 50 pound fee. Companies House updates the register, usually the same day.
Agreed before we begin.
The annual confirmation statement is included for our limited company clients. Other changes are filed as and when you need them, at an agreed fixed fee.
What we'll need from you.
- Details of any change before or as it happens
- Your company authentication code, or permission for us to request it
- Identity details for new directors and shareholders
Four quiet steps.
- 01
Conversation
We talk through the business, your current setup and what you need.
- 02
Proposal
You receive a written quote setting out the scope, responsibilities and fees.
- 03
Setup
We arrange access and agree how information will be shared.
- 04
Ongoing work
We complete the agreed work and tell you what we need along the way.
Worth asking.
Appointments are filed on form AP01 and resignations on TM01, online through Companies House using your authentication code, within 14 days of the change. New directors must also verify their identity. We file these for clients as they happen.
A solvent company that has stopped trading, with no assets or debts, can apply to be struck off with form DS01 and a fee. You must tell HMRC, employees, creditors and shareholders first. Companies House then publishes a notice and dissolves the company after about three months.
Yes. A dormant company still files annual accounts, usually simple dormant company accounts, and a confirmation statement each year. It should also tell HMRC it is dormant for Corporation Tax.
An annual filing confirming that the information Companies House holds about your company is correct: officers, shareholders, people with significant control, registered office and SIC codes. It must be filed at least once every 12 months, with a 50 pound fee.
There is no automatic penalty, but Companies House can strike the company off the register and directors can be prosecuted. It is simple to stay on top of, and we do it for you.
Yes. Under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, directors and people with significant control must verify their identity with Companies House. We can guide you through it.
If it is solvent and has no assets or debts, we can apply to strike it off. Where there are reserves to distribute, a members' voluntary liquidation through a licensed insolvency practitioner may save tax, and we can introduce one.
