Quickfile is a brilliant, all round, very affordable, bookkeeping and accounts software package. It can produce all the necessary reports to compile a simple profit & loss, balance sheet etc. and as an accountant, I use it as the basis (for many of our clients) to export a final trial balance. It does not (and should not) be used to produce a CT600. Clients with £ millions of turnover, should have an accountant, as corporation tax is extremely complex and very easy to get wrong and make costly mistakes. Specialist software is available to handle lots of the various scenarios that occur in many day to day companies. and produce a CT600. Unless the companies themselves are familiar with capital allowances rules, research & development, directors’ loan accounts, beneficial loan interest, associated companies, “associates” - to name just a few areas, then a Quickfile CT600 is not the answer…but a stepping stone to produce the necessary data to pass onto someone with the correct knowledge and experience.
ok thanks. i registered. it asks to upload, then select from a dropdown list. submit. ?
Hi @Dean85
I don’t work for BC Easyfiler or get a commission if you use their services 
Maybe you can take a look at their step by step instructions on their website:
Failing that, maybe contact them and ask for their help.
Hope this helps !
I was completing ALL of my Limited Company accounts on a spreadsheet & filing it all personally onto HMRC & Companies House until we were forced to MTD for VAT. This is when we started Quickfile. I issue 20 invoices & 10 receipts each month, plus PAYE for myself & my husband. There is no way I’m paying an accountant! If QF are unable to accommodate a quarterly upload (just like the VAT) for the new change to HMRC TAX affairs it is important that you keep us informed in good time.
As a small business (both of us self-employed) QF has been perfect for invoicing, VAT, purchases and receipts, and it generate the data required to complete a simple CT600 for self-filing. HMRC’s PAYE tool was quite enough to handle the payroll side and it all minimised our admin costs. If I need to start engaging an accountant as well it might hasten the decision to retire and avoid the increasing amount of hassle just to stay afloat!
We’re in the same boat, although we’re LTD. If I have to employ an accountant to do my job we are losing money. It’s only a matter of time before HMRC discontinue their free PAYE too.
Hi @JamesL
The CT600 is the company Tax Return and this is the one that HMRC are withdrawing support for. Going forward to next tax year , self employed people with turnover less than £50,000 will still need to complete a Self Assessment Tax Return and HMRC have not (as far as I know) withdrawn the ability to use their software. If it’s more than £50,000, Quickfile are developing software to send in quarterly returns to HMRC.
Same here, Ltd company but only run part time as a hobby really with very simple accounts so we’d be struggling without the ability to submit the CT600 via Quickfile and would probably look elsewhere for an accounting system.
I’m a CA although I haven’t worked as an accountant since I qualified decades ago other than using QF to maintain my micro entity accounts and manually file my CT600 and accounts with HMRC. I’m growing and it looks like the closure of the HMRC filing services will either mean my having to invest in a filing compliant package or an accountant. I would be interested in what QF might offer but tax is all about rules and we all know we have too many tax rules which change every budget which makes software maintenance burdensome and costly and possibly error prone.
I’m also in the same boat, now with several companies we maintain, including a small non profit with virtually no income. The rising costs of accounting are leading us to close a few of the companies, just not worth the costs of submitting CT600 at £140 a year for most software. The only option I found was Freeagent, which is free with a few different bank accounts, including mettle which offer a free bank account. It looks like I’ll have to move everything there to continue submitting my accounts myself.
I’d be happy to pay Quickfile for the CT600 submission. I’ll take a look at the year end accounts service, but I doubt that it’ll be less than £140.
Is there a definitive answer on the situation with Quickfile and filing going forward, we have 2 companies both on QF and our accountant / book keeper is suggesting a move to SAGE as this seems to be ready for the changes but also 3 times as expensive, but if it saves having to pay for add on softwares and any potential challenges with file conversion / uploads etc then something we might have to consider.
Just wanted to add my voice to this. I am an accountant and have my own consultancy company plus a separate small business that I own and file accounts for. Up to now I have used Quickfile to do my bookkeeping (I pay for it) and then filed manually on HMRC website. If Quickfile isn’t developing a way to file for me then I will have to switch to software that will - which will be a pain. Come on Quickfile - you need to sort this!
For many years I have been using SA2000 to file correctly tagged returns with both hmrc and companies house.
They have versions for companies, individuals and trusts and for a company it’s about £30
I have no connection with the company but you can download the software for free and try it as you only have to pay when you want to actually submit your accounts.
It runs on an excel spreadsheet and it isn’t the most user friendly (in fact it really needs someone to build a good user interface over the very complex set of rules which have to be updated by the provider each year) but it does the job and it is a great option for those of us who have small companies with low profits (at least until QF can build something better into their software).
I want to stress I have NOT used them (and I am not connected with them) but this site says they are on the approved list and will submit dormant company accounts for £9 https://www.justdormantaccounts.co.uk/