Xero Tax (UK) - Allow accounts to be signed by current directors rather than those in place during the year.
Imagine that the worst has happened and the entire board of directors were eaten by sharks on the first day after the year end.
Currently Xero Tax pulls the list of Directors from Companies House for the year in question, so
while new directors could be appointed, none of them would be selectable to sign the Director's Report or Balance Sheet in Xero Tax. On the other hand we would be able to select Directors to sign the accounts who in this hypothetical situation were busy being fish food.
Please change the signatories so it selects from current Directors at the date the accounts are being signed.
Neil Barnes
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Thanks for raising this, please do look out for the sharks! Atm, Xero Tax pulls the information at the date the filing is created so providing they're directors at that date, they should be included in the company information we receive back.
This'll include all active directors, whether they're appointed in the year of afterwards.
However, we're planning to improve this to offer more flexibility around the Directors information, including improving the format of the names themselves. We'll be in touch when we have more detail to share.