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PDF copies of your filing documents

Last updated: 25 July 2026

Short version. Everything filed for your company is available in your filing record as a PDF — easy to read, print, and share. The PDFs are exact copies of the documents that were submitted; the iXBRL files remain the legally-filed originals.

1. What you get

Your filing record includes a PDF for every document in your filing:

  • Your Company Tax Return (CT600 form): the official HMRC form with your submitted values — exactly what HMRC received, one 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).
  • Tax computation: the working behind your Corporation Tax figure — both the readable summary and a PDF of the iXBRL computation attached to your return.

2. 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 PDFs are direct prints of those same documents — the identical content, laid out page by page. Nothing is recalculated or reformatted, so what you read in the PDF is what the regulator received. If you ever need to check the underlying tagged data, the iXBRL file is the authoritative version.

3. Your carry-forward figures live in the tax computation

The tax computation is worth keeping for one reason beyond the record. It ends with 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.

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.

4. Where to find them

Open your filing and scroll to Your filing record. Each document row has View (opens in your browser) and Download. PDFs open directly in the browser's built-in viewer — no special software needed.

5. 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 show exactly what was filed, so there is never a question of whether a shared copy differs from the submitted version.