UK compliance keeps moving. Making Tax Digital continues to expand, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act changed what Companies House can ask for, and HMRC penalty regimes quietly reward the firms that are early. This pillar maps the statutory deadlines and filing requirements a UK practice has to track, and the operational habits that stop them arriving as a surprise. Accupe is the tracking layer rather than the filing tool: it pulls company data, officers and filing dates from Companies House and keeps the deadline, the working papers and the client approval in one place, while you keep submitting through your existing software.
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What every firm should have straight on this topic, whether or not it ever uses Accupe.
The register holds the company, its officers, its PSCs and its filing dates. Pulling that onto the client record beats retyping it, and watching it beats discovering a director change at year end.
A CS01 is due every year whether or not anything changed, and the cost of drifting is a register that no longer matches reality. Track the due date from the source, not from memory.
Digital records and quarterly updates for VAT, with MTD for Income Tax phasing in by income band. The practical work is knowing which clients cross the threshold, and when.
People with Significant Control changes carry short filing windows, and the trigger is usually a share transfer nobody thought to mention to you.
Statutory accounts are tagged and filed from your accounts production software. The practice-management job around it is the deadline, the approval and keeping the filed copy findable.
Companies House and HMRC penalties escalate with time, and appeals turn on evidence of what happened when. One more reason the audit trail is worth keeping properly.
Accupe is not MTD-recognised software and does not submit anything to HMRC or Companies House. You keep filing exactly as you do now; what changes is that the deadline, the working papers and the client approval stop living in four different places.
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