1st formations: Second-Year Renewals for My UK Company

First, I Received an Email

Services Due for Renewal

Then I logged in to 1st formations to check which services needed renewing

What Needs to Be Done Each Year

After incorporating a company, you need to file two types of reports each year: company information + financial/tax reports. You can generally file these yourself（Self Assessment）. If you get stuck, you can use an agency.

1. Address service renewal
2. Confirmation Statement: similar to an annual report, it contains basic company information, such as confirmation of the registered office address. It must be filed once a year. Before 2016, it was called an “annual return”.
3. Annual Accounts / Company Tax Returns: the annual financial/tax reports. Even dormant companies may need to file these; follow the instructions in any HMRC letters you receive.

https://idam-ui.company-information.service.gov.uk/

Register on this website using the same email address and name you used when incorporating the company, and your company will appear automatically

There is also an official youtube video on filing the statement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsKuFJZlkH4

The fee has now increased from 13 GBP to 34 GBP

Just follow the steps in the video

After submitting and paying, you will receive a confirmation email

You will then receive an acceptance email within 2 days. Mine was quick—it was confirmed in about 3 minutes

The update will also appear here. UK company filings are pretty quick in this respect

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Changing the Service Address

I submitted the change through 1st formations, replacing the service address with my actual (correspondence) address. This should save me the 26 GBP+VAT service address renewal fee.

Renewing the Registered Office Address Service

Contact Support and Explain the Situation

Ask them to disable automatic renewal for the "Confirmation Statement" and "Service Address" services. Submit a new request at https://support.1stformations.co.uk/hc/en-gb/requests/new explaining the situation, then follow up by email.

Summary

The annual cost is 34 GBP (filing the confirmation statement myself) + 46.8 GBP (renewing the registered office address), which is already the lowest possible cost.

About 757.64 CNY.

Cheap to register, expensive to renew...