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A way to post partially dormant accounts when moving from trading to dormant within a tax year. Currently in Xero Tax, you'd have to choose between the options 'Active throughout part of the period for corporation tax purposes' where you can only choose when the company started trading. The other option you could select is 'Dormant throughout the period for corporation tax purposes' and then choose the option 'Company has traded in previous period, tax return is required'.

Both options will allow you to create a CT600, however there isn't an option to choose when the company ceased trading or became dormant.

If you need to select a date when the company became dormant, you'd either need to prepare the filing outside of Xero Tax, or you'd need to update the filing period dates with Companies House. Once they've processed that, you could create a new filing in Xero Tax. Xero Tax automatically pulls through the return periods based on the API from Companies House. This seems an awkward workaround for the system.