Do I need a UK accountant if I live abroad and own a UK company?

Filing deadlines, formats and tax rules attach to the UK company itself: accounts to Companies House within nine months of the year end, and a corporation tax return to HMRC within twelve months, with tax paid nine months and a day after the year end.

None of these obligations reduce because the director lives overseas. If anything, remote owners need a UK accountant more, since they cannot easily deal with HMRC or Companies House correspondence, penalties or queries themselves from abroad.

Beyond the filings, a UK accountant acting as your agent can hold the registered office, receive and act on HMRC and Companies House post, register for VAT and PAYE, and advise on the disregarded income rules that often reduce UK tax on dividends paid to non-residents.

This removes the single biggest practical risk for overseas owners, which is missing a UK letter or deadline because there is no one local watching for it.

Our fixed monthly packages for a UK limited company start at £89 plus VAT and run to £169 and £289 plus VAT as bookkeeping, VAT, payroll and reporting are added. One-off filings are sold at fixed prices, and the Companies House fees we pay for you are charged at cost with no VAT added. Overseas owners are quoted on exactly the same published prices as UK-resident clients.

Rates, thresholds and deadlines here reflect the 2026/27 UK position and current Companies House and HMRC guidance. Check GOV.UK, or ask us, before relying on them for your own company.