PDF copies of your filing documents
Short version. Your filing record contains readable PDFs of the CT600 form, annual accounts and tax computations, as well as the XML and iXBRL files sent to the regulators. Use the PDFs to review, print and share the filing. Keep the XML and iXBRL files as the submitted originals.
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On this page
Where to find them
- Open the filing whose documents you want to read.
- Scroll to Your filing record.
- Find the document by its label. For two CT600s, also check Return 1 or Return 2.
- Select View to open it in the browser, or Download to save a copy.
- Check whether the document is a draft or part of an accepted filing before sharing it.
What you get
Your filing record includes a PDF for every document in your filing:
- Your Company Tax Return (official HMRC form): a readable copy of the official form, populated from the CT600 XML sent to HMRC. A long first period has one form per return.
- Full accounts (HMRC copy): the annual accounts attached to your CT600, including the profit & loss account.
- Companies House accounts: the version filed on the public register (for trading companies the profit & loss account is withheld, as the law allows). See what is public in company accounts.
- Tax computation: the working behind your Corporation Tax figure, both the readable summary and a PDF of the iXBRL computation attached to your return.
PDFs vs the iXBRL files
HMRC and Companies House require accounts and computations in iXBRL, a machine-readable web format. Those .xhtml files in your filing record are the legally-submitted originals, and we keep them for your records.
The accounts and iXBRL computation PDFs are direct prints of their corresponding iXBRL files. The CT600 PDF is different because HMRC receives the return as XML. We populate the official form from that submitted XML, so it shows the same box values in a familiar layout. The XML remains the authoritative submitted file.
Your carry-forward figures live in the tax computation
The tax computation is worth keeping for one reason beyond the record. It includes a section headed Losses carried forward to the next period, listing any trading losses, UK property business losses and capital losses the company still has available. Those are the exact figures to enter next year, so this is the document to open when you start your next return.
The Trading Loss section also shows the trading loss balance entering the return, losses arising, relief used and the balance carried forward. For a period over 12 months, use the final return's closing figures for next year. The first return's closing trading loss balance is already included in the second return's opening, so do not add the two closing balances.
Do not take them from the CT600 instead. The loss boxes on the CT600 (780, 805 and 825) are headed amount arising, so they report what happened in that period, not the running total you still have. The two figures are different whenever you used part of a loss or brought one forward, which is most of the time. The computation is the one that answers the question you are actually asking.
Sharing with your accountant or bank
The PDFs are ideal for sharing: send the full accounts PDF and tax computation PDF to your accountant, or the accounts to a lender or grant provider who asks for "a copy of your filed accounts". They present the same figures in a readable form. Keep the XML and iXBRL files as the submitted originals.
Asked to review your filing again?
If Review filing on the last wizard step says your saved figures changed, keep a note of your latest edits and use one browser tab for that draft. Reopen it from your company page and check the dates and figures before continuing. If the message keeps returning, contact support with your company number and the message shown. Do not change correct figures or dates just to get past the message. Clicking Review filing does not submit a return.
A preview is a snapshot of the figures you reviewed when it was generated. Viewing or downloading its PDFs does not create a new preview. When you choose Continue to submit, we check that the saved figures still match that snapshot before anything is sent.
If the figures no longer match, the filing dialog says so and offers Reload saved figures. Choosing it opens the same filing on the Review page with the figures as they are saved now. Check them, generate a fresh preview if you want new documents, and continue from there. Nothing is filed until you authorise it.
If nothing has changed and you are still asked to review again, sign out, sign back in and open the filing from your company page. If that does not help, contact support with the filing reference shown on the preview page.