Companies House Important Changes to Annual Returns

From 1st October 2011, Companies House will adopt the 2007 version of the UK SIC codes across their systems.

The UK SIC (standard industrial classification) codes are used to classify company business activities. Companies House has been recording the 2003 version of the codes which are 4 digits. The latest classification (SIC 2007) will record new 5 digit codes.

All companies filing an Annual Return with a made up date on or after 1st October 2011 will need to use the new codes. When filing your Annual Return via WebFiling you will be asked to select a new 5 digit SIC code. 

A full list of SIC(03) and SIC(07) descriptions and codes are available from our website which are also searchable by code or description.

There is also a conversion table which is a best fit correlation between current SIC 2003 codes and the new SIC 2007 codes. Click here: SIC Conversion Table

Other changes to the Annual Return 

Due to a change in regulations, there will also be changes to the shareholder details required on an Annual Return with a made up date of 1st October 2011 or later. For more details please click here: Changes to Shareholder Details

Service Disruption 

During the implementation of the above changes the WebFiling Service will be unavailable from 12.00 midnight on 30th September 2011 until 12.00 noon on 1st October. We will make every effort to keep this disruption to a minimum and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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Companies House

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From 1st October 2011, Companies House will adopt the 2007 version of the UK SIC codes across our systems.

The UK SIC (standard industrial classification) codes are used to classify company business activities. Companies House has been recording the 2003 version of the codes which are 4 digits. The latest classification (SIC 2007) will record new 5 digit codes.

All companies filing an Annual Return with a made up date on or after 1st October 2011 will need to use the new codes. When filing your Annual Return via WebFiling you will be asked to select a new 5 digit SIC code. 

A full list of SIC(03) and SIC(07) descriptions and codes are available from our website which are also searchable by code or description.

There is also a conversion table which is a best fit correlation between current SIC 2003 codes and the new SIC 2007 codes. Click here: SIC Conversion Table

Other changes to the Annual Return

Due to a change in regulations, there will also be changes to the shareholder details required on an Annual Return with a made up date of 1st October 2011 or later. For more details please click here: Changes to Shareholder Details

Service Disruption

During the implementation of the above changes the WebFiling Service will be unavailable from 12.00 midnight on 30th September 2011 until 12.00 noon on 1st October. We will make every effort to keep this disruption to a minimum and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards

Companies House

Note: This email was sent from a notification-only email address which cannot accept incoming email. Please do not reply directly to this message.

You can unsubscribe from the ‘Latest News and Updates’ service at any time by logging into WebFiling and selecting the ‘My account details’ at the top left of the screen, remove the tick from the subscribe box and submit.