Filing by hand

One guide for each pack, in five parts, to read on screen, tick through and print.

• Start here: the company, the period, what is in the pack and its fingerprint, and what is due and by when.
• The Company Tax Return (CT600): the values worked out, box by box. A return cannot be filed from a form on GOV.UK; it needs commercial software or an agent, and the guide says so.
• Companies House accounts: the figures as they appear in the accounts file, for keying into WebFiling, and how to file the same file with software.
• The confirmation statement: what it needs, and where each person's identity verification stands on the register.
• Corporation Tax payment: the amount, the date, the ways to pay, and where to find the payment reference.

Every step cites the official GOV.UK page it relies on, and the guide ends with the list of pages and the day each was read.

For an approved pack you can download a ZIP with the guide as a PDF, the approved files exactly as approved, and a checksum for each, so you can check nothing changed on the way to your accountant.

• Made only for a pack that was approved and still matches the books. A draft, a replaced pack, or an approved pack whose books have since changed does not get one.
• The same approved pack always gives the same bundle.
• Each download is written to the filing's audit trail.

• The Companies House form's layout is not known to this software. The accounts sheet follows the accounts file, and tells you to check each figure against what the form asks.
• The dates are the ones on the deadlines page, worked out from the period end. They do not replace the date on a notice or a reminder from HMRC or Companies House.
• The ticks on the guide are kept in your browser, as a reminder. The record of a filing is the one you make by recording it as filed.
• No accountant has reviewed any of this, and it is not advice.