The filing obligations every company owes to Companies House — what must be filed, by when, and the penalties, fines and lost rights that follow default.
Behind each filing deadline sits a sanction, and the sanctions range from automatic penalties to disqualification and the loss of a lender's security. This chapter begins with who is responsible for compliance and what it means for a director to be 'in default', before working through the routine filings: the annual confirmation statement, the annual accounts with their deadlines fixed by the accounting reference date, and the tiered penalties for filing late. It then covers the event-driven notifications — changes of directors, allotments of shares, special resolutions and amended articles — together with the documents required to reduce share capital and the consequences of a baseless solvency statement. It closes with the 21-day window for registering charges, where missing the deadline renders the security void against a liquidator, and the rules identifying persons with significant control.
