Dormant company accountants

Dormant company accounts and confirmation statements filed for a fixed annual fee, keeping a non-trading UK company clean, compliant and ready to restart.

• Dormant accounts prepared and filed with Companies House

• Confirmation statement filed each year with the register checked

• HMRC notified so corporation tax notices to file stop being issued

• Review of whether the company is genuinely dormant, for both Companies House and HMRC

• Registered office and director address support where the company is held for a name

• Restart support, registrations and bookkeeping, when trading begins again

A company is dormant for Companies House purposes when it has had no significant accounting transactions in the period. Payments for shares taken by subscribers on formation, filing fees and late filing penalties are specifically ignored, but a single bank charge or a pound of interest ends dormancy and full accounts become due.

HMRC dormancy is a separate test and needs telling separately. Until HMRC agrees, notices to deliver a company tax return keep coming and a £100 penalty applies for ignoring one, even with no tax to pay.

Dormant companies still file a confirmation statement each year with the £50 (from 1 February 2026; may change again) fee, still maintain a register of people with significant control, and are still struck off if filings are missed, which is how directors lose a company name they were protecting.

Thresholds, rates and deadlines quoted here reflect the 2026/27 UK position. Check current GOV.UK guidance, or ask us, before you rely on them for your own company.

We start by looking at the last filed accounts, your current records and your filing dates, then confirm a fixed scope and fee in writing.

Once the work is live you get reminders ahead of each deadline, a named person to ask questions, and a plain-English summary when the figures are ready, not a PDF with no explanation.