When is your confirmation statement due?

A confirmation statement (form CS01 for companies, LL CS01 for LLPs) is how you tell Companies House that the public record about your business is still correct. It confirms your registered office, your directors (or members), your people with significant control (PSCs), your SIC codes and, for companies with shares, your shareholders and statement of capital. You have to file one even if nothing has changed — it is a confirmation, not a return of changes.

Every company and LLP runs to a 12-month review period. The day that period ends is your confirmation date (sometimes shown as the "made up to" date). After it, you get a 14-day filing window to send the statement and pay the fee. The clock then resets for another 12 months.

There's an annual filing fee of £34 if you file online (it's £62 on paper), and you pay it once per 12-month payment period however many statements you file in that period, so filing early doesn't mean paying twice. The fee rose from £13 in May 2024, so older guides may quote the wrong figure.

Update the record before you file. The statement only confirms what's already on the register, so check and correct these first: your PSC (people with significant control) register, your SIC codes (the activity codes), your registered office and email address, and your directors or members. For a company with shares, also check the statement of capital, shareholders and any share transfers — share changes are reported on the confirmation statement itself, but most other changes (a new director, a change of office) must be filed on their own forms before, or at the same time as, you confirm.

Your first review period runs from incorporation; after that it runs from the date of your last statement. You can also file early at any time, which closes the current period and starts a fresh 12 months from that day.

Miss the deadline and the consequences are serious. Companies House can treat the company as no longer carrying on business and begin striking it off the register, and not filing is a criminal offence for which directors can be prosecuted and fined. The bank can freeze accounts of a dissolved company and its assets can pass to the Crown.

The confirmation statement is its own job. It is separate from your annual accounts, separate from your Corporation Tax return to HMRC, and separate from any Self Assessment — each has its own deadline and its own clock.

Your review date is the anniversary of incorporation (or of your last statement); you then have 14 days to file. So the tool takes your anchor date — your last confirmation statement date if you give one, otherwise your incorporation date — and adds 12 months to find the next confirmation date. If that date has already passed, it keeps adding another 12 months until it reaches the next one due. The filing deadline is that confirmation date plus 14 days.

This is a guide to keep you ahead of the date, not a substitute for the record. Companies House shows your precise confirmation date and the exact "next statement due" date on your company's page, and the first-ever period can sit a day either side of the simple anniversary. If a date looks close to the line, treat it as the latest sensible point and file earlier.