Since 18 November 2025, identity verification is a legal requirement for every company director and PSC. Your deadline isn't a national date — it's tied to your own company's confirmation statement. Check yours in 30 seconds, straight from the register.
From 18 November 2025, identity verification became a legal requirement for every company director and person with significant control (PSC) in the UK — around 7 million people.
Existing directors verify during a 12-month transition, tied to their company's next confirmation statement. By November 2026, every director on the register must be verified.
Miss it and it's an offence with financial penalties — and the company can't file. The confirmation statement itself can't go in without every director's personal code.
Type the company name and we'll pull its directors, its PSCs and their identity-verification deadlines straight from the Companies House register.
This is why the rollout is catching people out: there is no single “verify by” date. Your deadline depends on whether you're a new or existing director, a PSC, or both — and on your company's own confirmation statement date.
| Who you are | When you must verify | The detail |
|---|---|---|
| New directors | Before or at appointment | Since 18 November 2025, you can't be appointed (or incorporate a company) without verifying first. |
| Existing directors | Your company's next confirmation statement | You verify once, get a personal code, and the code goes on the confirmation statement — for every company you're a director of. |
| PSCs who are also directors | 14 days from the confirmation statement date | The director deadline covers the director role; the PSC role has its own 14-day window starting the day after the company's confirmation statement date. |
| PSCs who aren't directors | The first 14 days of your birth month | A PSC-only individual's window is personal: the first 14 days of their month of birth. Born in January? Your window opened 1 January. |
The transition runs to November 2026— by then, every director and PSC on the register must be verified. The safest reading of the rules: verify early (it's free), then make sure the personal code actually reaches Companies House for every role you hold.
A new legal requirement under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: every company director and person with significant control (PSC) must prove who they are to Companies House once, either online through GOV.UK One Login or through an authorised agent. When you verify, you get a personal code — an identifier you then supply for each role and each company you hold.
New directors have had to verify since 18 November 2025 before they can be appointed. Existing directors verify as part of their company's next confirmation statement during the 12-month transition — so the deadline is your company's confirmation statement date, not a single national date. PSCs who are also directors get a 14-day window starting the day after the confirmation statement date; PSC-only individuals must verify in the first 14 days of their birth month. The checker above pulls your company's actual dates from the register.
It's an offence, with consequences including a financial penalty. Just as practically: you won't be able to make filings for the company or start a new one, and the confirmation statement itself can't be filed without every director's personal code — which then puts the company on the road to late-filing penalties and, ultimately, strike-off risk.
Verifying directly with Companies House through GOV.UK One Login is free — you'll need photo ID such as a passport or driving licence, and the checks trip plenty of people up. The alternative is verifying through an authorised agent like us: we run the identity check ourselves and deliver the result to Companies House, which is usually the painless route when documents are awkward or there are several people to get through.
Yes. Taxopedia is registered with Companies House as an authorised agent — an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) — which means we can carry out identity verification checks to the same standard as Companies House and file the result directly. For our clients it's part of the job: verification, personal codes and the confirmation statement handled together.
You verify once and get one personal code. But you must then provide that code for each company, as each files its confirmation statement. Directors of several companies have several deadlines — one per company — which is exactly the kind of thing that slips.
The code Companies House issues when your identity is verified. It's personal to you, not to a company — you use the same code for every directorship and PSC position you hold. Keep it safe and share it only with people who file on your behalf.
Nearly. Verifying creates your personal code, but the legal duty is only discharged when that code is delivered to Companies House for each role: on the confirmation statement for directorships, and through the PSC verification service for PSC positions. Verified-but-never-supplied is still a missed deadline.
Book a free, no-pressure call — we'll check who in your company still needs to verify, run the checks ourselves as a Companies House authorised agent, and take the whole confirmation-statement job off your plate.
Book a free call →We checked these rather than relying on memory. Every figure and deadline above comes from HMRC directly — go and read them yourself if you'd like to.
Last reviewed 14-07-2026. Tax rules change — if you're reading this long after that date, check the source.
