Register your UK limited company, year one covered

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One price, for the whole first year

Company registration
Registered office, 12 months
Director service address
First confirmation statement
Digital certificates and registers
Every Companies House fee

Essential Formation £250 + VAT

Companies House authorized

Registered ACSP AP012163

Authorised Corporate Service Provider.
Check us on the Companies House register.

A named, qualified specialist

Who handles your company

Nicky PeruchoFormation and company secretarial Formation Specialist

Chloe WaiteAccounts and corporation tax ACCA

Named from day one

Accounts, tax and payroll, all in house

What your company files Who it goes to

Confirmation statementYour registered details, confirmed each year Companies House

Annual accountsPrepared, signed off and filed Companies House

Corporation tax returnCT600, calculated and filed HMRC

VAT returnsEvery quarter, once you are registered HMRC

Payroll and pension filingEvery payday, as soon as you hire HMRC

Every one of them, by our own team No referral out

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You can pick one of our packages while you think of other name options.*If you own the Business Name, we can register the Company Name for you, get in touch here.

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It is unknown to ASIC and must be assessed to determine if it contains potentially undesirable or restricted text. You may still proceed to register this name. *If you own the Business Name, we can register the Company Name for you, get in touch here.

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Now what? Select your prefered option below and start your dream business today.

Priced for the year, not just formation

New Companies house fee in effect from 1 February 2026. Registrations henceforth will be subject to the updated fees.

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£250

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£1,560/yr

with monthly

Companies House fee included

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Business compliance

Your books and tax, off your desk

£1,071

£877

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£2,400/yr

with monthly

Companies House fee included

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Full management

Grow without adding admin

£2,561

£2,069

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Essential formation

The specialists who handle your formation

Nicky Perucho

Head Of Incorporations UK

Over ten years in company formation, and the person who signs off the structure before anything is filed. Certified in ISO/IEC 27001 and anti-money laundering compliance.

Emma Clark

Customer Success Executive

A qualified ICB bookkeeper who now guides founders through forming their company, and through what their filing obligations will be once it exists.

Four steps to a registered company. You do two.

Check your name

Checked against the Companies House register and against existing trade marks.

Pick a package, or ask

Or book a call and a specialist will recommend one.

Verify your identity

Required for every director, and done once, with us, as a registered provider.

We file, you trade

Your certificate of incorporation, company number and registers land in your portal, with your filing dates already tracked.

[Company_Name_5] is not available.

You can pick one of our packages while you think of other name options.*If you own the Business Name, we can register the Company Name for you, get in touch here.

[Company_Name_5] Name may not be available and will be referred for a manual decision.

It is unknown to Companies House and must be assessed to determine if it contains potentially undesirable or restricted text. You may still proceed to register this name. *If you own the Business Name, we can register the Company Name for you, get in touch here.

[Company_Name_5] is available!
Now what? Select your preferred option below and start your dream business today.

Registering the company is one filing. Here are the rest.

Year one

Week 1

Government fee£100

Company registered

Companies House

Essential formation

Month 3

HMRC, within 3 months of trading

Business compliance

Month 12

Government fee£50

First confirmation statement

Companies House

Essential formation

Month 12

First accounting period ends

Date set by Companies House

Nothing to file

Year two

Month 21

First annual accounts

Companies House and HMRC

Business compliance

Month 22

Corporation tax payable

HMRC, we calculate it and tell you when

Business compliance

Month 24

Corporation tax return

HMRC

Business compliance

Month 24

Government fee£50

Second confirmation statement

Companies House

Business compliance

Whenever it applies

Before payday

HMRC, if you employ anyone

Full management

At £90,000

HMRC, on rolling 12-month turnover

Full management

Each 31 Jan

Your own self assessment

HMRC

Full management

All of it tracked from the day you register

Your dates are set the moment Companies House confirms the company, and they sit in your portal rather than in your head.

Your Sleek portal

Confirmation statement

Due 26 Mar 2027

Scheduled

First annual accounts

Due 12 Dec 2027

Opens month 13

Corporation tax return

Due 31 Mar 2028

Opens month 13

Business banking, opened alongside

One month free on any Revolut Business plan when you register with Sleek.

If you plan to raise, get the share structure right first

SEIS and EIS give your early investors significant tax relief, and eligibility depends on how the company was set up. Share classes, share capital and who holds what all matter, and unpicking them after you have issued shares is expensive and sometimes not possible at all.

Raise it on your formation call. There is no charge for the conversation.

Advisory, when you need it

Fixed fees

SEIS or EIS advance assurance

HMRC confirmation before you raise

£250

Joint SEIS and EIS advance assurance

Both schemes together

£350

HMRC certificate management

Compliance statements and investor certificates

£350

Priced separately, and only if you need it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does it actually cost to run a limited company in year one?

In statutory fees, £150: £100 to register the company and £50 for the first confirmation statement. Everything else on the timeline above carries no filing fee. What costs money is the work: preparing accounts to the right standard, filing a corporation tax return with iXBRL computations, and keeping bookkeeping in a state where those are possible. That work is what our packages price, and it is what a formation-only price does not.

Do I need an accountant straight away?

Not on day one. You need one before your first year end, and in practice earlier, because the bookkeeping decisions you make in month one determine how much work the year end takes. If you already have an accountant, Essential Formation is the right package. If you do not, starting without one usually costs more later than starting with one.

What is an ACSP, and why does it matter?

An Authorised Corporate Service Provider is a firm registered with Companies House to file on behalf of others and to verify the identities of directors and people with significant control. Since the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, that registration is required rather than optional. Not every formation agent holds one. Ours is ACSP No. AP012971 and you can check it on the register yourself.

When is my first confirmation statement due?

Your first review period runs for twelve months from incorporation, and the statement is due within fourteen days of the end of it. The timeline above calculates the exact date from your incorporation date. It costs £50 to file online, and it is a separate thing from your accounts, which people often assume it is not.

Can I move a company I formed somewhere else?

Yes, at any point, including if you are already past a deadline. We write to your current provider, collect the records and take over the filings. Late filings get cleaned up as part of the handover rather than billed as a rescue job.

Will the price change in year two?

Formation is one-time. From year two you move to an annual accounting plan, and the address and administration services renew individually. We publish those renewal prices rather than revealing them at renewal: registered office £44.95, director service address £25.95, business address £99.95, company administration £129.95, confirmation statement £59.99, all per year plus VAT.

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