All UK companies’ investors must comply with the requirements in each of the following areas listed below within the stipulated timeline for action / statutory filings as follows:
| No. | Description | Timeline |
| 1 | Filing your company’s confirmation statement | At least once a year – but you may choose to file more often.
(If you do not file your statement within 14 days of the end of your review period, your company and its officers may be prosecuted. Your company may also be struck off the register.) |
| 2 | Changes in
– the address where you keep your records, and which records you keep there – directors or their personal details, like their address ‘people with significant control’ (PSC), or their personal details like a new address – company secretaries (appointing a new one or ending an existing one’s appointment) |
Within 14 days if you make changes to Companies House |
| 3 | Issue more shares in your company | Within a month to Companies House |
| 4 | PSC information changes | You must record any changes to your PSC information in your company’s PSC register, such as a change of personal details or nature of control. You must do this within 14 days of the change.
You must send these changes to Companies House within a further 14 days. |
| 5 | File first accounts with Companies House | 21 months after the date you registered with Companies House |
| 6 | File annual accounts with Companies House | 9 months after your company’s financial year ends |
| 7 | Pay Corporation Tax or tell HMRC that your limited company does not owe any | 9 months and 1 day after your ‘accounting period’ for Corporation Tax ends |
| 8 | File a Company Tax Return | 12 months after your accounting period for Corporation Tax ends |
| 9 | Register with the ICO and pay the annual data protection fee, unless you qualify for an exemption | If you’ve received a notice, it includes your payment deadline. Set a reminder to pay again in 12 months. |
| 10 | Register for VAT | If your total taxable turnover exceeds £90,000 in the last 12 months, you must register for VAT within 30 days of the month you surpassed the threshold. |
| 11 | Register for PAYE | If you are hiring staff in the UK |
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