Small Businesses: Company Accounts and Taxation
(asked on 11th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent changes (a) HMRC and (b) Companies House has made to the filing requirements for small and medium-sized businesses.
Answered by
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Department for Business and Trade is currently engaging with stakeholders on proposed changes in filing requirements at Companies House to ensure they strike the right balance between tackling economic crime and avoiding undue burden on business.
HMRC has required companies to file electronic company tax returns since 2011 and announced earlier this year that, from 31 March 2026, it would be withdrawing the joint online filing service it runs with Companies House.