Company registration in the UK
We will register your UK company with Companies House, obtain the identity codes the filing now asks for, and hand over the address, the email and every filing date year one sets.
Incorporation fee
Пошлина за подачу
100 pounds online
100 фунтов онлайн
Same-day filing
Подача тем же днём
156 pounds
156 фунтов
Annual statement
Годовой отчёт
50 pounds a year
50 фунтов за год
Tax under 50,000
Налог до 50 000
19% on profit
19% с прибыли
When you need company registration in the UK
The company is needed this week
An online filing costs 100 pounds and is usually registered within 24 hours; a paper one costs 124 pounds and takes 8 to 10 days.
Your founders live outside the country
Residence is no obstacle to owning or directing a company here, but every director now needs a verified identity before the filing will go through.
Someone asked for a UK address
The registered office has to be an address where post reaches a person acting for the company and delivery can be acknowledged. A post office box will not do.
Profit is heading past the first line
Corporation tax is 19% while profits stay at or below 50,000 pounds, and 25% once they pass 250,000, with relief tapering between the two.
Nobody has looked at the calendar
Two dates start at incorporation and repeat: the confirmation statement and the annual accounts, each with its own deadline in days and months.
What you get
- The certificate and the company number
- Model or bespoke articles, decided
- Identity codes for every director
- An appropriate address and a registered email
- The four filing dates of year one
What is required to register a company in the UK
Registering a company here is among the cheapest things a founder will do all year. The duties that begin the day after the certificate are the expensive part, and they are the reason this page is arranged around the calendar.
The rest of our United Kingdom practice is on the country page; to compare this with another jurisdiction, start from company registration.
What the registration filing holds
- A memorandum of association and articles, or the model articles adopted as they stand.
- A statement of capital, and a statement of guarantee where the company is limited by guarantee.
- A registered office that qualifies as an appropriate address, and a registered email address.
- A code from Companies House for each director, confirming a verified identity.
- Details of the people with significant control, who supply their own codes.
The fee list, filing by filing
| Filing | Fee |
|---|---|
| Incorporation, online or by software | £100 |
| Incorporation, on paper | £124 |
| Same-day incorporation, by software | £156 |
| Confirmation statement, first in the year | £50 |
| Voluntary strike off, online | £13 |
Identity, before the filing goes in
Since 18 November 2025 identity verification is a legal requirement. When a new company is registered, the personal code of each director is part of the registration filing itself. A person with significant control gives their code when first entered on the register or within 14 days of being entered.
What starts the next day
The confirmation statement
Every company delivers one before the end of 14 days after each review period ends. It costs 50 pounds for the first statement in a 12-month payment period.
The annual accounts
A private company has nine months after the end of its accounting reference period to file. A public company has six.
The address, kept appropriate
The duty holds after incorporation. Where the registrar is not satisfied and no evidence arrives within 28 days, the process to strike the company off begins.
Year one on the registrar's clock
- Corporation tax at 19% up to 50,000 pounds of profit and 25% above 250,000, with marginal relief between.
- Registration for value-added tax once taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over 90,000 pounds.
- The confirmation statement, due within 14 days of the end of the review period.
- The accounts, due nine months after the accounting reference date.
Sources: fees — the Companies House fee list and the registration guidance; identity codes — verification guidance; the address and email — address rules; the 14-day statement — section 853A of the Companies Act 2006; nine months for accounts — section 442; 19% and 25% — Corporation Tax rates; 90,000 pounds — VAT registration.
Stages of work
The name and the model articles
We check the proposed name against the registrar's rules and decide whether the model articles fit or the company needs its own, since changing them later is a separate filing.
Identity codes for the people
Every director obtains a personal code before the filing, and the people with significant control obtain theirs, because the registration will ask for them by name.
The address and the email
We arrange a registered office that meets the appropriate-address test and a registered email address, both of which the company has to keep working afterwards.
The capital and the filing
The statement of capital is prepared, the file goes in online, and the choice between the ordinary fee and the same-day service is made on the date you actually need.
The certificate, and the tax registrations
The certificate brings the company number. Corporation tax registration follows, and value-added tax joins it when turnover requires or when you choose it earlier.
Four dates we hand over
Four dates matter in year one: the confirmation statement, the accounts, the corporation tax return and the turnover level that makes registration for value-added tax compulsory.
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