Catch-up filing
Years behind? Catch up in one sitting
Included on every paid plan — no extra charge per year, ever.
Companies drift. A year gets missed, then another, and the brown envelopes get scarier until the register shows a company several filings deep in arrears. The fix is more mechanical than it feels: we read your full Companies House history, list every year of accounts you still owe right back to the company's first, and you file them oldest-first until the list is empty.
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In the product
Every year of accounts, in one list
The Annual accounts tab reads the company's Companies House history and lists every year of accounts since the company was set up — outstanding ones first, with their due dates, and the completed ones behind their own tab. A company years behind sees the whole backlog here, oldest first.
- 1An outstanding year, with the date it is due — oldest first when there are several.
- 2Completed years sit behind their own tab, right back to the company's first.
- 3Filed elsewhere? — tick off a year an accountant already handled.
The Annual accounts tab lists every year of accounts since the company was set up, the outstanding one with its due date and a File button, and a Filed elsewhere toggle for years handled by someone else.
Every missing year, found
From your Companies House record we work out every year of accounts you still owe — not just the current one. You see the whole backlog at once, in order, before you decide anything. Want the picture before signing up? The free Companies House audit shows you the same thing.
Oldest first, until you're clear
Catch-up filings go in oldest-first, each one prepared the same way as a current-year filing. There's no limit on how many years you can file and no extra charge per year — the subscription covers the filings.
Long periods split properly
If a set of accounts covers more than 12 months — common after a missed year or a date change — HMRC needs two Company Tax Returns: one for the first 12 months and a short one for the rest. We work out the split and hand you both with the dates pre-filled.
Filed elsewhere? Tick it off
If a period was handled by an accountant or another service, mark it as done and it drops out of your list and reminders. The daily register sync usually spots it before you do.
Questions, answered
- Is there a limit on how far back I can file?
- No — we find every year of accounts still unfiled, back to the company's first, and you can file all of them. Late filing penalties from Companies House may still apply to overdue periods; filing won't cancel a penalty already due, but it stops it moving into a higher band.
- Does catching up cost more?
- No. Plans are priced by how many companies you manage, not how many filings you make — a five-year backlog costs the same as a single year.
Keep reading
See exactly what your company owes.
The free check reads your Companies House record and lists every year still to file.
DormantFile is an independent service, not part of Companies House, HMRC or any government body.