CT600E for a non-Companies House registered charity

Hi,

Good news — this is already supported. You do not need a Companies House number to file a CT600 with CT600E through WeFile.

Adding your charity manually

1. On your dashboard (or the Companies page), click Add Company.

2. In the Add Entity dialog, switch the toggle from Companies House to Charity or CASC (no company number).

3. Choose your entity type — Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), Unincorporated charity, Charitable trust, or Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC).

4. Enter the name, the charity number (issued by the Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI), and optionally the registered or principal address, then click Add Entity.

If you are a CASC rather than a charity, the identifier field asks instead for the club's 10-digit HMRC Corporation Tax UTR, because CASCs are registered with HMRC rather than a charity regulator and have no charity number.

Filing for it

Once added, the entity behaves like any other in your account, with two differences:

• The accounting period is entered manually. For Companies House companies we read the period dates from the Companies House API, but that register holds nothing for your charity, so you type the period start and end dates yourself when creating the filing.

• Charity or CASC status is set automatically on the filing, so the CT600E section (step 10, "Charity") is included from the outset. Box 115 is ticked and box 4 is set for you (8 for a charity, 6 for a CASC), and CT600E box E10 carries your charity number. Everything else — the exemption claim (E15/E20/E25), income E50–E90, expenditure E95–E125, assets E130–E190 and the legacy donors table — is filled in through the wizard, and you can download the completed CT600 and CT600E as PDFs.

One important point on accounts: these entities are CT600-only in WeFile. The Companies House accounts leg is switched off, because there is no Companies House record and, in any case, FRS 102 / Charities SORP accounts cannot be filed electronically through us. Your annual accounts and trustees' annual report must be prepared and filed with your regulator (or retained, for a CASC) separately.

HMRC still expects to see accounts alongside the return, so on the review step you can upload your accounts as a PDF and we will attach them to the submission. If you do not upload anything, we generate and attach an explanation letter instead. If your charity's income is fully exempt (box E20), no corporation tax computation is required either — we handle that automatically. If it is only partially exempt (box E25), you complete the profit and loss figures and we generate the computation for you.

To submit you will need the charity's 10-digit HMRC Corporation Tax UTR and its Government Gateway ID and password, with Corporation Tax active on that account.

If you hit anything unexpected once the entity is in, just send us the charity's name and we will take a look.