Guidance · updated 20th August 2026
Confirmation statement deadlines across a client book
A confirmation statement is a simple filing. Two hundred confirmation statements, each on its own date, each now dragging a second obligation behind it, is not simple at all.
Why the date is different for every company
The confirmation statement date follows the company, not the calendar. It runs from incorporation or from the date of the last statement, so across a client book the dates are scattered through all twelve months. There is no quarter end where they all land and no single day on which a practice can sweep them.
It also moves. A company can file an early confirmation statement, and doing so resets the date for every subsequent year. That is a perfectly ordinary thing to do, and it silently invalidates whatever was written in the tracking spreadsheet.
What the date now triggers
The confirmation statement date is no longer only a filing deadline. Where a person is both a director and a PSC of the same company, it is also the trigger for that person’s 14 day PSC window, which runs from the day after the confirmation statement date.
So one date in the register now drives two separate obligations, one belonging to the company and one belonging to an individual. Filing the statement does not discharge the second one. That is the gap most practices are finding in their books right now.
The consequence for a tracker. A spreadsheet built to hold company filing dates will tell you the statement is done. It will not tell you whether the individual behind that company completed their separate step inside their 14 days. Those are different questions and they need different columns.
What a practice actually has to hold
| Field | Where it comes from | How often it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Company number | Public register | Never |
| Confirmation statement date | Public register | Annually, and immediately on an early filing |
| Current officers | Public register | On any appointment or resignation |
| Current PSCs | Public register | On any share or control change |
| Whether the individual has acted | Checked against the register | Continuously, and this is the one that matters |
| Birth month for a PSC who is not a director | Practice records | Never, but it is often not held in a usable form |
The monthly sweep nobody sets up
New incorporations, new appointments and PSC changes arrive continuously. Every one of them adds a row and starts a clock. A tracker without a monthly sweep is accurate about a book that no longer exists, and the gap between the two widens every month quietly enough that nobody notices until something is overdue.
What we do and do not do. Director Filing Desk is not an Authorised Corporate Service Provider, an accountancy firm, a filing agent or a company secretary. We do not carry out identity checks and we never will. We watch a list of company numbers on behalf of accountancy practices, spot what is due, and chase the people who have not acted. Nothing here is legal or tax advice. Always confirm the current position at GOV.UK.
Where we come in
We pull the register data weekly, recheck every outstanding individual, chase the ones who have not acted under your brand, and sweep new companies into the book every month. Same machine, whether it is pointed at PSC obligations, confirmation statement dates, accounts deadlines or new appointments.
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Written 20th August 2026 and checked against Companies House and GOV.UK guidance on the same date. Guidance in this area is subject to change, so always confirm the current position on GOV.UK before acting.