For directors of Irish small & micro limited companies
Is your CRO deadline closer — or your audit exemption closer to gone — than you think?
Enter your Annual Return Date below. This checker computes a 56-day Form B1 filing date, your
late-filing penalty if you filed today, and an honest read on your audit-exemption allowance. It runs entirely
on your device — nothing is sent anywhere, there's no sign-up and no email.
Check my company
Three quick inputs. Same deterministic date and penalty maths as the full Guardian tool.
Find your official ARD on your company's entry at core.cro.ie. The 56-day filing window runs from this date.
Across this one company. A further late return in the relevant window may affect audit-exemption entitlement.
Please enter your Annual Return Date.
Filing deadline—
Days remaining—
Penalty if filed today—
Audit-exemption allowance (rolling 5 years)
This is a self-assessment estimate from editable default rules (the 56-day window; the €100 + €3/day penalty
capped at €1,200; the one-free-late-filing-in-5-years audit-exemption regime commenced 16 Jul 2025).
It is not legal or accounting advice and is not affiliated with the CRO.
Always confirm your own ARD and deadline on the CRO register, and speak to a qualified accountant about
anything affecting your audit-exemption status.
This checked one company, once. The Guardian watches them all, every year.
The free checker is a snapshot. The full Annual Return Guardian is the private tracker for repeat filing checks:
A multi-company dashboard with red/amber/green status for every company you direct
One-click calendar reminders (.ics) that nag you at 28, 14, 7 and 1 days before the deadline
An audit-exemption allowance tracker that flags when late-filing history needs adviser review
A substantive B1 + financial-statements filing checklist, the plain-English Playbook, and editable rules
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