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HMRC deadlines · United Kingdom

Every UK tax deadline, on one calendar.

FigsFlow is deadline tracking software for UK accountancy practices. Year ends, corporation tax, VAT staggers, PAYE and P11Ds, Self Assessment and MTD quarterly updates — dated per client from the client record, owned by a named person, chased before they bite, and evidenced after.

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app.figsflow.com/deadlines SAMPLE DATA
Ashcombe Joinery Ltd 4 due
  • VAT · Q to 31 Jul7 September 2026 · with the client
  • Confirmation stmt22 September 2026 · ready to file
  • MTD Q2 · director7 November 2026 · chasing records
  • CT600 · y/e 31 Dec31 December 2026 · in preparation
  • OwnerA. Shrestha · one named person

nothing typed into a spreadsheet

Illustrative example — the company, the dates and the owner are fictional.

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Watch a calendar build itself

Two steps and a dated calendar appears: the client record already knows the entity type, the accounting reference date and the services engaged, so the dates follow. Nobody types 31 January into anything.

VID-01 · 16:9 · under 120s · poster frame required — show a client being added and the dates appearing

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PROBLEM · OWNERSHIP

Nobody decided to miss it.
Four places each said it was fine.

The tax software said it wasn't due yet. The spreadsheet still had it marked unconfirmed. The Outlook reminder fired two years ago and was long since dismissed. And whoever last touched the file remembered something about it — vaguely.

Every answer was reasonable. Together they left nobody actually holding the date.

An accounts senior at a desk, looking out at the city at dusk, working late through a stack of client deadlines
A. SHRESTHA · ACCOUNTS SENIOR

"Every system told me it was fine."

Tax software
Not flagged yet
SAID FINE
Spreadsheet
Marked unconfirmed
SAID FINE
Outlook reminder
Set two years ago
SAID FINE
Memory
Vaguely recalled
SAID FINE
What actually happened
A. Shrestha · VAT return11 days late
Where it sits

What feeds the calendar, and what it sets off

Deadline tracking software is only useful where it is wired into everything either side of it.

The record supplies the answers; the calendar decides what has to happen next.

FEEDS IT SETS OFF Client record Entity type, year end and VAT stagger — held once. ONE SOURCE Statutory calendar HMRC's dates — not typed in by hand. BUILT IN Services engaged VAT, PAYE, CT and MTD — whichever apply. FOUR Deadline calendar COMPUTED 17 DATES NEXT 90 DAYS VAT PAYE CT & MTD Client record + VAT stagger— nothing typed by hand Practice target date Sits ahead of the statutory one. Review time built in. AUTOMATIC Job and owner Carried by a job, assigned to a named person. OWNED

Feeds it

Client recordEntity type, year end and VAT stagger — held once.One source
Statutory calendarHMRC's dates, not typed in by hand.Built in
Services engagedVAT, PAYE, CT and MTD — whichever apply.Four
Deadline calendar
17 dates · next 90 days
Client record + VAT stagger — nothing typed by hand.Computed

Sets off

Practice target dateSits ahead of the statutory one. Review time built in.Automatic
Job and ownerCarried by a job, assigned to a named person.Owned
Capability

Which dates are yours, and which are the client's?

Every date on the calendar has a named person in the practice against it, and where the client has to act first, that dependency is on the record too — so a date waiting on the client is visibly different from a date waiting on you.

Ashcombe Joinery Ltd — filtered by owner
VAT return7 September 2026
A. SHRESTHA
CT60031 December 2026
A. SHRESTHA
Confirmation statement22 September 2026
A. SHRESTHA · 6 this week
MTD Q2 · director7 November 2026
J. PATEL

One name against every date — not a filter somebody has to remember to apply.

Confirmation statement — 21 days out
Job opensBefore the current one is filed
ON BOARD
Records requestedRepeats until answered
AUTOMATIC
Practice target7 days before the statutory date
SET
At risk — moved to the manager automatically, while there's still time to act.
The three weeks before

What happens in the three weeks before?

The job for the next VAT quarter is on the board before the current one is filed. Records chasing runs on its own schedule and repeats until it's answered. Nobody drafts the third reminder.

The team works to an internal target with review time built in — the statutory date is the backstop, and clients never see the raw one.

Filed in your tax or ledger software. FigsFlow records what was due, who did it, and when.

Two dates, not one

The statutory date, and the date you actually work to

Two dates per obligation. The statutory one belongs to HMRC and does not move. The practice target sits ahead of it and belongs to you — the one the team works to, and the one that gives you somewhere to stand when a client is late.

VAT return · Q to 31 Jul
Statutory dateBelongs to HMRC — does not move
7 SEP 2026
Practice targetThe one the team works to
31 AUG 2026

7 days of review, built in — before HMRC's date, not after.

Confirmation statement · Ashcombe Joinery Ltd
Practice targetSlipped visibly, with time to act
MISSED · 3 DAYS
ChasedRecords portal, plain English
2 REMINDERS
Reviewed byNamed, not anonymous
A. SHRESTHA
FiledStatutory date still met
22 SEP 2026

Every chase, upload and review stamped — the file already holds what happened.

When it slips

And when one slips anyway?

It slips visibly, while there is still time. The date is on a job with an owner, so a slip shows on a board rather than surfacing in a letter six weeks later.

Seen enough? Bring your worst week of the year.

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Category contrast

A list of dates, or dates attached to work

Tax deadline software for accountants that only shows dates is a spreadsheet with a nicer font. The question is never whether you can see the date. It is whether anything happens because the date exists.

A deadline list

  • 01Dates in a spreadsheet somebody updates
  • 02Reminders in Outlook
  • 03Progress known by asking

The list tells you a date is coming; it does not know whether the records arrived or who is on it.

Dates attached to work

  • 01Derived from the client record
  • 02Carried by a job, owned by a person

The request already sent and the history already kept.

Who uses it

What this looks like at your size

Pick the shape of your practice.

Three people, one client list, and no shared view of what is due. Owners end the assumption that somebody else has it.

01 / 04Three people, and the date belongs to nobody
0:00 / 2:02 −2:02 remaining

What you’ll see0:00 / 2:02

  1. 0:00Three people, and the date belongs to nobody
  2. 0:31Every obligation gets one named owner
  3. 1:02The one that fell between two people is now visibleNo more “I thought you had it”
  4. 1:35One board everyone reads the same way

Preview clock — no video source set

Runtime 2:02Captions onRecorded in the product

One named ownerPer obligation, not per client
One shared boardNot three private lists
Chased earlyBefore it becomes a scramble
Nothing assumedOwnership is on the record
Your stack

Works with what you already run

Sits alongside your tax and filing software rather than replacing either. FigsFlow does not file and does not guarantee compliance — it makes the date something owned, visible and evidenced.

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Proof

Built inside a working UK practice

Built by people who had their own worst week of the year, more than once.

Coming soon0:48
The one nobody ownedSole practitioner · film in production
Coming soon1:02
I thought you had itSmall practice · film in production
Coming soon0:55
January that starts in OctoberGrowing practice · film in production
Coming soon1:09
Managed, not merely metLarger firm · film in production

Named practice references and review-platform ratings are not shown on this page yet. They will be added once the practices concerned have agreed in writing.

Pricing

What it costs

PRICING-BLOCK-01 pending

Deadlines are almost certainly not metered. “Included, not metered” is a complete and competitive answer — to confirm before publishing.

AVAILABILITY-NOTE-01 pending

US availability with a date — to confirm.

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Related modules

What the date connects to

A deadline is only a date until something is attached to it. These four are what the calendar reads from and writes to; the rest of the platform sits around them on the same shared record.

Client onboarding Companies House Proposals CRM and pipeline Audit trail and evidence AML and due diligence
E-signature Client portal Engagement letters
Reporting Workflow templates Email
Timesheets and billing Practice dashboard Documents in SharePoint Meetings and scheduling API and webhooks Client mobile app
Resources

See it in practice

Case studies, short films and writing on running a compliance calendar by ownership rather than memory.

Case studies, films and articles are in production. Named practice references will be published once the practices concerned have agreed in writing.

Questions

What practices ask before they switch

No. Filing stays in your tax software. FigsFlow holds the date, the owner, the job and the evidence around it.

From the client record — entity type, accounting reference date, VAT stagger, payroll frequency and the services engaged. Change the year end and the dates change with it.

Yes, and most firms should. The practice target sits ahead of the statutory date and is the one the team works to.

The dates derive from that client's own reference date, not from a default.

No, and any software that says otherwise is selling you something. It makes a missed date visible early and owned by somebody, which is what actually prevents most of them.

Bring your worst week of the year

No scripted demo. Bring the week you dread and we will build it as a calendar in front of you, with owners and target dates, and you can decide whether it looks manageable. The deadline stops being something to remember and becomes something to review.

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