Annual company return, as the term implies is a company information chart, supposed to be annually submitted by the UK registered companies with the Companies House. The Annual Company return is an information outlay providing relevant details on company’s ownership & management pattern, registered address and other related details to the relevant authorities. Filling an annual company return is mandatory and a failure to comply might pose serious legal implications.    

The Annual Company return must be filed within 28 days of the made up date. The made up date typically is the month and day of incorporation or date after a year of the last filed return.  

Procedural overview  

Companies House marks the preprinted ‘shuttle’ annual return form to the companies. This form is usually sent about 2 weeks prior to the made up date and thus annual company return filling date. With the form, there is a covering letter which assists with completion. Details like company registered address, address where company’s register member’s and debenture holder’s register is kept, principal activities, information on share capital etc. are required. Annual return form 363a can also be deployed as a substitute to the stated shuttle form. The duly filled form with appropriate formalities on changes / modifications/ resignations / new resolutions in place is to be marked to the Registrar of companies. The procedure also entails a fee for filling the Annual company return. Any differences in information appended and the already held information with Companies House, might lead to a discrepancy, which again must be duly sorted out.  

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