Companies House Return is due November 5th. It's not ideal for us financially to have returns done for this date, is there any way to change this?

I think I read somewhere you can move it 3 months back? How would I go about doing this?
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What do you mean by Companies House return? I would expect that to mean the Annual Return of members, directors and secretary on form 363.

Why would there be a financial issue with filling in that form by the due date?

If you mean the company's accounts, would I be right in assuming that the company was incorporated on 5 January 2007, and the accounts due are those for the period ended 31 January 2008? If that is in fact the case, then nothing that you can do will alter the fact that the first accounts have to be filed within 22 months of incorporation. The only thing that you can do to push this back is pay a fine of ?00 for filing late.
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I think I'm a little lost...

Accounting Reference Date: 31/10
Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)
Next Accounts Due: 08/08/2009
Last Return Made Up To:
Next Return Due: 05/11/2008

The above is our company info. What exactly is due on November 5th? I thought those were the end of year accounts which cost around ?00-?00?

Could you possibly give me a breakdown of what is required by a company to submit, to whom, and when?

Thankyou so much in advance! The worry of doing things late is boggling my mind & stressing me out!
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My original suspicion was correct! :D What you have to submit by 5 November is an annual return - it lists shareholders, directors and secretary, plus other information such as a trade classification

You can have a look at the paper copy here (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk//forms/generalForms/363.pdf) but it's much easier to file online as the form will be prepopulated with directors and secretary. Cheaper too - ?5 compared with ?0 for paper forms. Once you've filed online, the shareholders will be shown as well in future forms and you simply edit any changes.

This return will be required every year, made up to the same date. You can change the date by filing early, but I can't think why anybody would do that.

The company accounts are quite separate. Your company was incorporated on 8 October 2007, so they are expecting accounts up to 31 October 2008. You can change this if you wish, by shortening or extending this period.

Normally accounts are due to be filed at Companies House ten months after the accounting date. However, there is an overriding rule that the first accounts are due 22 months after incorporation - hence the date of 8 August 2009.

That gives you ten months to save up to pay your nice accountant! ;)

HTH
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... then nothing that you can do will alter the fact that the first accounts have to be filed within 22 months of incorporation. The only thing that you can do to push this back is pay a fine of ?00 for filing late.

By way of an aside, as I appreciate that it is not the immediately pressing document for the OP, I have thought for some time that what you have put here is correct as per the legislation - and yet I have often managed to push that back to 25 months for some particularly tardy clients.

Perhaps I should not put here how it is done in case it is a CH online filing glitch and somebody at CH reads the thread!
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By way of an aside, as I appreciate that it is not the immediately pressing document for the OP, I have thought for some time that what you have put here is correct as per the legislation - and yet I have often managed to push that back to 25 months for some particularly tardy clients.

Perhaps I should not put here how it is done in case it is a CH online filing glitch and somebody at CH reads the thread!


You rotten tease! :p
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