Companieshouse Avis 

Complete nightmare trying to verify directors for new rules next month. Spent the whole day trying. Neither driving licence nor passport accepted. Phoned company’s house and the .gov help desk for this and if documents not accepted, you can’t try again. Only suggestion was to go to the Post Office and use a solicitor or accountant at around £50 each. These internet sites are so bad. Have had same issue paying tax over the years. You would think in 21st century UK which is supposed to be the “service industry” country the .gov would be functioning ?

Why take something that wasn't broken then break it? Just tried signing in via the new, improved(?) up to date security conscious graphical user interface and after entry of multiple codes and attempts I still failed to access my account.

It's such a secure system, that with my full account details and permissions I cannot gain entry. How are we expected to work with an orgaisation that clearly doesn't work and is not fit for purpose

Sort it out.

My firm is dormant. I registered to secure the name of my firm. I got a letter by post informing me that I have not delivered my accounts for 31 December 2024, But, since that time I have had no email notices and no notice of a filing penalty. Nothing about late delivery of accounts until the other day in the letter. I must deliver the accounts before 17th October. I'm, hoping that means I will not incur a penalty if I do that. It's not entirely clear. EDIT: And now today I cannot file accounts because of some technical problem. Sheesh!

Companies House' decicision to enforce software based submission of accounts from April 2027 is beyond hilarious. They are just going to end up with either a complete mess of accounts that don't work and their data set will be useless, or nobody will have a clue what their on about and they won't have any accounts for the year. I am relatively computer savvy and the whole thing is gobbledegook to me. Looking through some of the already woeful paper based accounts in the system from other companies from previous years, this is going to be an utter trainwreck. Good luck get 70 Yr old Arthur Cartwright who runs a farm in Yorkshire to submit his accts in XMBRLi or whatever the hell it is!! Absolute out of touch grade A dickheads.

Over the years Companies House has got worse. I've filed for clients for 32 years,now trying to log in is a joke, they blame my browser, cookies, cache, etc. there are blips when trying to change things, you get chucked out in the midst of filing and have to log in again, and they NEVER make a mistake!! Customer service used to be okay, but I'm afraid that is now hit and miss, and with all this new identity stuff that's going on, I'm seriously thinking of quitting my job, too much hassle for the mostly small sized companies our accountancy firm deal with,it won't stop the frauds going on.

Payment system doesn't work. Tried 2 cards credit and debit and all I get is:

Your payment has been declined
No money has been taken from your account. Contact your bank for more details.

Every time I login to your broken system it the same story. There is now multiple logins somehow... One you send in reminder another thru find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

WHY IS IT SO COMPLICATED?

Why is confirmation statement went from 13GBP to 34GBP?

Not ones to take action. They will divert via every excuse in the book and somehow make your allegation your fault.

A COMPLETE BUNCH OF WASTERS.
They are totally incompetent from making promises on one hand (which was proven to be the wrong information given) to ignoring their own standards and just happy to accept businesses uploading their required annual details and statements despite them being months (3) late as well as being inaccurate …. fraudulent ? Just given a link and told to complain to another organisation ! What a complete farce ….

22 July 2025
3 weeks on and they can’t even respond….the responses on here send out a clear message do they not ?

I spoke to a member of staff from companies house. I haven’t done accounts etc before and I explained that on the phone. She was rude and huffed all the time like I was an Inconvenience when I asked her explain again. I do not recommend.

So unprofessional! Intsructed me to file RPCH01 and RP02A forms online, the online site instructs you to NOT attach anything other than from or be rejected, reject it ands send via post for not uploading ID, despite site telling you form will be rejected. Beg for an email address to resubmit the forms due to time urgency and categorically told that you can't send the forms via email and the only way they'll accept them is the post, send them again this time via post and receive a letter from Companies House telling me that the forms need to be resubmitted via email! What in the lord of god is going on at Companies House. I fear government departments have been told to give people conflicting information to send the mental health of people in this country nuts as if they all do it you are bound to feel like you are loosing your mind, is companies house doing this on purpose to cause distress and confusion?

You pay to register a company then you have to pay a yearly fee for literally nothing. Even the women on the phone admitted its just a charge the government give because they can. Meant to be for services they offer but you have to do everything yourself. Yet more evidence of the uk government just full on taking the mick out of everyone. Complete disgrace.

What a snivelling bunch of cretins these guys are. I had a legitimate mitigating factor that held me back from filing my accounts on time. I’ll explain them below.

My accountant recently sold his firm to another large firm. Due to the back log, the new company (Tax Assist) were having a hard time catching up with all the new clients. Unfortunately my accounts were going to be filed late. I emailed phoned companies house and also emailed them in advance to explain the situation. I didn’t hear back following the email I was advised to send and assumed all would be well.

Roll a couple of months and I’ve received two £375 fines, one for each of my companies. I appealed and explained my situation, I explained that I had contacted them prior and had been advised to send them an email.

Companies house didn’t accept this and said that it is up to me to do my accounts. This is ridiculous. I’m not an accountant and I wouldn’t have a clue where to start. Of course companies house knows this and they just take in money from the poor sods that they fine. The person who declined my appeal suggested that I hire a new director to handle my accounts. What a moron!!!! As if times aren’t hard enough at the moment in this country.

There’s a word I’d use to describe companies house, but my review wouldn’t be accepted if I used it.

Trying to login into the site is an impossibility.

Shocking service and poorly created site.

Joke money robing tw4ts.... thats all they care about

Do not pay for any of their services. Starta inte bolag via dem. Scammers!!!

Trying to fill in an online form and they want to post an 'authorisation number' .Its 2025 not 1990

I have received great and consistent support from staff at Companies house. Last week I spoke to a person regarding accessing my account and the tips I received to change to Chrome browser worked. Also, Saqib in particular, was responsive, speedy and very polite. I was grateful for the time he took to resolve my query. He is an asset to the team.

allowed a director to carry on trading after 9 of his companys had failed to submit accounts over a 5 year period all were compulsary struck off , no referal to cardiff magistrates court ,totaly against the 2006 companies act it was no surprise when that director went into administration again 14000 customers lost all there money ,companies house not fit for purpose and a top management clear out needed

Another Govt body that needs a complete overhaul - happy to harbor crooks and their companies - appalling checking procedures ie struck of director continue to run businesses -the ineptitude is endless