Your company's accounts, filed by you. Your books, kept to yourself.
A.X.E.L Filing turns plain answers about your year into micro-entity accounts and a CT600, and files them straight to Companies House and HMRC. £49, no accountant, no subscription.
Hi, I'm Axel
After 10+ years running small businesses (e-commerce, coffee machines, digital marketing) and plenty of time around the trades, the same job came round every year: the company's accounts and Corporation Tax return.
For a small limited company, an accountant usually charges hundreds of pounds a year for it, and thousands once bookkeeping and the extras are added. A one-off filing service can come in cheaper, but either way you are paying someone to retype numbers you already have.
And to get there, you hand everything over: bank statements, every invoice, who your customers are, who your suppliers are, what you pay yourself. Your whole business, on a silver platter, to someone outside it. Plenty of owners would simply rather not.
So we built A.X.E.L Filing. You answer plain questions about your year, with your own AI to help if you like, and watch your accounts and CT600 take shape with the tax worked out as you type. A.X.E.L only asks for the totals: your invoices, bank statements and supplier list stay with you, and nobody goes through your books. You check the exact documents, then file them with your own Government Gateway login.
Alongside it, the A.X.E.L platform runs the day-to-day for trade businesses: leads, quotes, jobs, invoices and CIS, in one place.
Our mission
Filing your own company's accounts shouldn't need an accountant's bill, a subscription, or handing over your books. If your affairs are simple, A.X.E.L lets you do it yourself, properly, for £49.
Small limited companies kept facing the same annual bill for the same annual job: a set of micro-entity accounts and a CT600 built from numbers the owner already had. Paying hundreds for it every year, and handing over the whole business to get it done, felt like the wrong way round.
A.X.E.L Filing checks your company fits before you type a single figure, builds micro-entity accounts and a CT600 with the tax computed live, and files them straight to Companies House and HMRC: £49 for both, £20 for a dormant company. Alongside it, the A.X.E.L platform handles leads, quotes, invoices and CIS for trade businesses.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax reaches sole traders over £30,000 in April 2027, and A.X.E.L's quarterly updates and VAT returns arrive with HMRC's 2027/28 software window. Same idea throughout: you keep your numbers, the software does the filing.
Our values
Practical
Trade businesses are hands-on. The software should be too. Every feature in A.X.E.L solves a real problem we've seen on site, with no bloat and no features that exist just to tick a box.
Affordable
Filing your accounts and CT600 costs £49 a year, not an accountant's bill. The trade platform starts free, with paid plans from £19 a month. No lock-in, no hidden fees.
Trustworthy
Your financials, your client data, your tax filings: they matter. A.X.E.L asks only for what a filing needs, files with your own login, and you can export everything, anytime. Your data is yours.
How is A.X.E.L different?
You file it, properly
See the exact accounts, CT600 and tax computation HMRC and Companies House will receive before anything is sent, then file with your own Government Gateway login. You stay in control of your own return.
Your books stay yours
No uploading bank statements, invoices or supplier lists to a stranger. You enter the totals a filing needs, and nobody goes through the rest of your business.
Honest about when you need an accountant
Groups, R&D claims, property income, chargeable gains: if your company needs professional judgement, A.X.E.L tells you before you start, not after you have paid.
Works with your AI
Connect Claude or ChatGPT, hand it your records, and it fills in your return while you watch. It does the reading and the typing; you check the figures and you decide when to file.
File your company's accounts yourself
Check your company fits in two minutes, preview everything for free, and only pay the £49 when you are ready to file. Running a trade? The A.X.E.L platform starts free too.