Annual Return and Financial Statement Deadlines
Every company on ACRA's register has to file an annual return every year, within a fixed number of months of its financial year end (FYE). Two dates on this site's company pages — annual return and account due date — come directly from that requirement.
What an annual return is
An annual return is a yearly filing with ACRA that confirms a company's key particulars — its registered address, officers, share capital and, where required, its financial statements — are up to date. It's separate from filing a corporate tax return with IRAS; missing either one is a compliance issue on its own.
The filing deadlines
ACRA sets the deadline from a company's financial year end, and it differs by company type:
| Company type | Deadline after FYE |
|---|---|
| Private (non-listed) company | 7 months |
| Private company with share capital and an overseas branch register | 8 months |
| Listed company | 5 months |
| Listed company with share capital and an overseas branch register | 6 months |
An overseas branch register is a share register a company keeps outside Singapore for shareholders based there — most private companies don't have one, so 7 months is the deadline that applies to the large majority of the private companies published on this site. If you're not sure which category a specific company falls into, ACRA's owndeadline and requirements page is the authoritative source.
Reading the dates on a company's page
Each company page here shows two dates from ACRA's own record:
- Annual return — the date of the company's most recent annual return filing, or its next due date, as ACRA records it.
- Financial statement / accounts — the due date for the company's accounts, shown as ACRA's own
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On a company's page, we also add one plain-language note when it's relevant: if the most recent annual return was filed more than a year before the data on this site was last collected, the page says so directly, since that's a reasonable signal that a filing may be overdue and worth checking on Bizfile directly.
What a late or missing filing does and doesn't mean
A company that's behind on its annual return is still shown as "Live" here and on ACRA's own register — non-filing is a compliance breach, not by itself a change of legal status, and ACRA pursues it separately through late fees and, in persistent cases, enforcement action, rather than automatically striking the company off. Treat a filing that's well overdue as a reason to ask questions before relying on a company's other particulars, not as proof the company has stopped operating — seehow to check if a Singapore company is registered and live for the difference between filing compliance and registration status.
If you run the company yourself
This site is a read-only reference built from ACRA's public data, not a filing tool — it can't submit an annual return, remind you before your own deadline, or show you filings that haven't reached ACRA's public dataset yet. File directly through ACRA's BizFile+ portal, and if you're unsure which deadline applies to your company, check the constitution and share register question against the table above, or ask a corporate secretary.