How DormantFile compares
Several filing services cover only the Companies House side and leave HMRC to you. DormantFile files both of a dormant company’s returns — the accounts and the nil tax return — and watches the company for the rest of the year. Here is what each service covers, how you file, and what it costs.
| Service | Accounts to Companies House | Tax return to HMRC (CT600) | Micro-entity accounts (FRS 105) | How you file | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DormantFile | Yes | Yes | Yes | Direct, self-serve — both sides in one flow, plus free deadline watchdog, hijack alerts and optional autopilot | from £19/yrtotal, no VAT |
| TinyTax | Yes | Yes | Yes | Direct, self-serve | £20/yrex VAT |
| WeFile | Yes | Yes | Yes | Direct, self-serve | £15/filingpay per filing |
| EasyDigitalFiling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Self-serve, Corporation Tax-focused — no dormant-specific plan | £80–£139/filingex VAT; £80 is the tax return alone |
| Inform Direct | Yes | You file it yourself | Yes | Self-serve company-secretarial software | £25/filingex VAT; micro-entity £45 |
| 1st Formations | Simple dormant form (AA02) only | You notify HMRC yourself | No | Email a questionnaire back, filed within 3 working days | £49.99/yrex VAT |
| FileDormantAccounts | Simple dormant form (AA02) only | No | No | Self-serve, Companies House only | £8.99one-off |
| justdormantaccounts | Simple dormant form (AA02) only | No | No | Self-serve, Companies House only | £9one-off |
Prices and features as published by each provider and verified in September 2026. DormantFile isn’t VAT registered, so £19 is the total you pay. Other prices are shown as each provider publishes them, excluding VAT where stated — most add 20% VAT at checkout.
WeFile charges for each filing, and a dormant company files every year; DormantFile’s price covers every filing and every attempt in the year, and carries your details forward year to year. EasyDigitalFiling has no dormant-specific plan — a dormant company pays its Corporation Tax or micro-entity prices.
Head-to-head
Weighing us against one service in particular? Each of these sets out what that service leaves out, and what DormantFile covers.
Where we’re different
Filing the two returns is where we start. Here’s what we’ve built around the rest of a dormant company’s year.
Built only for dormant companies
We do one job: the yearly paperwork of a dormant or non-trading company. Accounts and the Company Tax Return showing nothing to pay (the nil CT600) for companies — including dormant accounts that carry figures from trading years — the nil CT600 for CICs, and accounts plus the nil Partnership Tax Return (SA800) for LLPs. Not VAT, not personal tax returns, not trading accounts. The whole product is shaped around that year: the filings, the deadlines between them, and the public register.
LLPs, filed yourself
Not just limited companies. We file dormant LLP accounts self-serve — or short micro-entity LLP accounts (FRS 105) when the LLP isn't trading but has transactions on its books: add the LLP, choose dormant or micro-entity, name the designated member (one of the members responsible for the LLP's filings) who approves the accounts, and it goes straight to Companies House. There's no Company Tax Return — an LLP is taxed as a partnership, and any HMRC return would be the Partnership Tax Return (SA800), due only if HMRC writes asking for one — and DormantFile files it showing nothing to pay when one does.
Flat management and RTM companies
Companies limited by guarantee — the usual shape of a flat management or right-to-manage (RTM) company — file both sides here like any other company: dormant accounts when the service charges are held in trust for the flat owners (the statutory trust), micro-entity accounts when they run through the company's own books, and the nil CT600 if HMRC asks for one. The accounts carry the correct legal form for a guarantee company.
CIC tax returns, and honesty about the rest
Community interest companies get their nil CT600 filed here — there's no CIC-specific box on the return, so HMRC takes it from software like any other company's. What we won't tell you is that we file a CIC's accounts: nobody's software can, because Companies House only accepts them with a community interest report (CIC34) and a £15 fee through its own routes. We file the return, track both deadlines, and send you to the right place for the other half.
A free watchdog, even between filings
Keep getting Companies House deadline reminders — accounts and confirmation-statement dates, plus strike-off alerts — at no charge. HMRC sets its own dates and we never invent one, but we remind you about any Corporation Tax or partnership return deadline you add, free as well. You only subscribe in the year you actually file.
We watch for company hijacking
Neglected dormant companies are the classic hijacking target. We check your public record daily and email you about changes you didn't make — to its directors, registered address, owners or name — while there's still time to report them.
Optional autopilot
Save your Companies House authentication code once and we prepare your dormant accounts each year — one click from you confirms and files them. Nothing is sent without that click. Turn it off any time.
Rejected returns are free to fix
If Companies House or HMRC rejects a return, you correct and resubmit as many times as you need until it's accepted — at no extra charge. Your subscription covers every attempt.
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