Newspapers: reporting to Companies House

Business: Business Tax

    If you’’re running a newspaper, you must send an ‘annual return for a newspaper’ to Companies House.

    You must send an ‘annual return for a newspaper’ to Companies House if you:

    • publish any kind of newspaper more often than every 26 days
    • publish weekly or more often and the newspaper is mainly advertisements
    • charge people who buy the newspaper
    • distribute the newspaper in England, Wales or Ireland
    • include editorial content in the newspaper

    You must send form ‘NLR1 – annual return for a newspaper’ to Companies House by 31 July every year. The address is on the form. You must include the £10 filing fee.

     

    Report changes of proprietor

    If the proprietor of the newspaper changes, you must send Companies House form NL2.

    Download ‘Form NLR2’ (PDF, 98KB)

    Annual returns for newspapers – when you need to send them