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File micro-entity accounts with Companies House, for £30.
Your small company traded this year, so Companies House wants FRS 105 micro-entity accounts. Enter your figures, read exactly what we've prepared, and we file it for you through official Companies House software. No accountant, no jargon, no spreadsheet template to decode.
£30 per filing. No subscription, no account fee. You pay at the point you file, not before.
Does my company qualify as a micro-entity?
"Micro-entity" is a size category, not a type of business. It's the smallest class of trading company, and most one-person limited companies in the UK sit comfortably inside it.
Your company qualifies if it meets at least two of these three conditions:
- Turnover of £1 million or less
- Balance sheet total of £500,000 or less
- 10 employees or fewer, on average, across the year
If you're a freelancer, contractor, consultant, or running a small side business through a limited company, you almost certainly qualify. A company with one director, no staff and £60,000 of turnover meets all three comfortably.
Some companies can't use micro-entity accounts
The regime is closed to a few kinds of company regardless of size — including public companies, charities, and companies in certain regulated financial sectors. Companies in a group can also be excluded depending on how the group is structured. If your company is an ordinary small trading limited company that isn't part of a group, none of that applies to you.
And if your company didn't trade at all this year, you don't want this page — you want the simpler and cheaper dormant company accounts at £15. Our wizard asks "did the company trade this year?" in plain English and picks the right type for you, so you don't have to be certain before you start.
What FRS 105 actually means
FRS 105 is the accounting standard written specifically for micro-entities. Its whole purpose is to strip out complexity: fewer accounting policies, no revaluations, no deferred tax, and a much shorter set of disclosures than a small or medium company has to produce.
In practice, micro-entity accounts are a balance sheet plus a small number of notes. Two things surprise people:
Your profit and loss account isn't published
You prepare a profit and loss account, but you are not required to file it at Companies House. What goes on the public register is the balance sheet and its notes. Your turnover and profit do not become public information through this filing.
The notes are short and fixed
Micro-entity accounts require a small, defined set of notes — including a statement on the balance sheet that the accounts were prepared in accordance with the micro-entity provisions, and details of any guarantees or commitments. There's no directors' report to write and no lengthy accounting-policy section.
We generate the accounts as tagged electronic accounts (iXBRL, against the FRC's FRS 105 taxonomy — the standard the register expects) and transmit them through Companies House's official software filing channel, the same channel accountants' software uses. Your balance sheet has to balance, and our generator refuses to produce accounts that don't — so a typo in your figures gets caught before anything is sent.
When are micro-entity accounts due?
For a private limited company, accounts are normally due 9 months after the end of your accounting reference period — the company's financial year end, which you can look up on your company's page on the public register.
A brand new company gets longer for its first set: 21 months from the date of incorporation, or 3 months from the accounting reference date if that falls later. After that first filing, the ordinary 9-month rule applies every year.
The penalty for filing late is automatic — Companies House does not send a warning first. The published scale for a private company is:
| How late the accounts are | Penalty |
|---|---|
| Up to 1 month | £150 |
| 1 to 3 months | £375 |
| 3 to 6 months | £750 |
| More than 6 months | £1,500 |
File late two years running and the penalty doubles. The penalty is charged to the company, and it is separate from anything HMRC may charge for a late Corporation Tax return.
One thing worth knowing now: from April 2028, accounts must be filed through commercial software. Companies House is closing both paper filing and its own free WebFiling service. Filing this way now is the direction the whole register is moving in.
What you'll need before you start
- Your company number. Eight characters, on your certificate of incorporation and on the public register. We pull your company's details from the register so you're not retyping them.
- Your Companies House authentication code. The six-character code that authorises a filing. If you've lost it, Companies House will post a replacement to the registered office — worth requesting before your deadline, not after.
- Your year-end figures. What the company owns and owes at the year end: cash at bank, money owed to you by customers, money you owe suppliers, and any share capital. If you keep any kind of bookkeeping, you already have these.
You do not need a full trial balance, an accounting package, or a bookkeeper's export. If your company's affairs are more complicated than a handful of balances, that's a genuine sign you'd be better served by an accountant.
How it works
You prepare and approve your own accounts. We turn your figures into the format Companies House requires and transmit them for you.
Enter your company number. We pull your company's public details from the register so you're not retyping them.
Enter your year-end figures. Plain-English fields, not accounting jargon — and we check the balance sheet balances as you go.
Review exactly what will be filed. We show you the finished FRS 105 accounts in full. Nothing is submitted until you've read them and approved.
Pay £30 and we file it. Your approved accounts go to Companies House through their official software channel. Confirmation lands in your inbox.
Next year is faster. We keep your details and remind you before the deadline, so it never sneaks up on you.
Your accounts, prepared by you, filed through our software. TidyFilings is not an accountant, tax adviser, or Authorised Corporate Service Provider — we don't prepare your figures for you or give accounting advice. You confirm the accounts are right; we transmit what you approve.
Common questions
The things people actually ask before filing micro-entity accounts themselves.
Will my turnover and profit become public?
No. Micro-entity accounts filed at Companies House consist of the balance sheet and its notes. The profit and loss account is prepared but is not required to be filed, so your turnover and profit don't go on the public register through this filing.
Is this the same as my Corporation Tax return?
No, and this is the single most common confusion. Companies House and HMRC are separate organisations wanting separate things on separate deadlines. This filing satisfies Companies House. Your Corporation Tax return goes to HMRC and is not covered here. If you're unsure what HMRC expects, check with them or a qualified adviser.
What if my company traded for only part of the year?
Then it traded, and it needs micro-entity accounts rather than dormant ones. Dormancy is broken by a single significant accounting transaction — one invoice or one business payment is enough. Filing dormant accounts for a year in which the company traded is a false filing, so it's worth being honest with yourself about this one.
What if I've already missed the deadline?
File as soon as you can. The penalty is banded by how late the accounts are, so the difference between filing now and filing in a month can be hundreds of pounds. Late accounts are still accepted — the penalty is separate from whether the filing goes on the register.
Can I use this if I'm a sole trader?
No — these are accounts for a registered limited company. Sole traders don't file accounts at Companies House at all. If you have a company number, this is for you; if you don't, you don't need this.
What does an accountant charge for this?
Typically £150–500 a year for a small company's accounts and filing. If your company has payroll, VAT, multiple revenue streams, or anything you'd genuinely want advice on, an accountant earns that fee. This is built for the simpler case: a small company with straightforward figures and no one to advise.
Do you store my authentication code?
No. The code is used to transmit the filing you approve and is never written to our logs or kept afterwards. Our privacy policy sets out exactly how it's handled, along with everything else we do and don't keep.
What happens if Companies House rejects the filing?
Only Companies House decides whether to accept a filing, and a rejection can happen for reasons outside our control — a wrong authentication code, a period that isn't open, a company that isn't eligible for the accounts type chosen. Where a filing fails for a reason on our side, our refund policy applies.
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