Duck Tax
Check micro-entity company accounts: raw figures in, validated balance sheet and deadlines out.
What it can do
What data it sees
Do you need an account
No: the server works without sign-in
Check micro-entity company accounts: raw figures in, validated balance sheet and deadlines out.
How to connect
How to connect Duck Tax to Claude
The server address to paste into Claude settings:
https://ducktax.com/api/mcp
- Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
- Go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click Add custom connector.
- Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
- In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.
Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.
Authorization
After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.
How to connect Duck Tax to ChatGPT
The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:
https://ducktax.com/api/mcp
- Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
- Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
- Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
- Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
- In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.
OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.
Authorization
On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.
How to connect Duck Tax to Cursor
The server address to paste into Cursor settings:
https://ducktax.com/api/mcp
Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.
Manually:
- In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
- Paste the JSON copied below into
~/.cursor/mcp.json(per project:.cursor/mcp.jsonin the repo root). - Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.
Authorization
If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.
Server tool list (20)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| check_accounts | Derive a small-company balance sheet (micro-entity, in UK terms) from raw figures and validate it. Returns the derived sheet for the current and prior year, the figures the authority would reject (negatives where it wants a positive, share capital left at nil), and whether they are complete enough to hand to a filing product. It does NOT check that the sheet balances and cannot: retained earnings is derived as the balancing figure, so both sides always agree. Do not tell anybody their sheet was checked for internal consistency. Free and instant: call it after every change to the figures. All money in major units (pounds not pence, dollars not cents). Pass lastFiledAs from lookup_company and it also warns when figures showing activity are about to be filed dormant again. |
| dormant_figures | The complete set of figures for a dormant company: share capital, the matching cash, and zeros everywhere else. The register says when the last accounts were filed dormant, and for those companies this collapses the whole form to one call. Amounts in major units. |
| totals_to_figures | Turn categorised bank-statement totals into balance sheet figures, applying the rules that stop an import lying: only income categories reach turnover, only expense categories reach operating costs, and the owner topping up the account is never sales. Totals are signed major units per category code; get codes from categorise_transactions. |
| late_filing_penalty | What missing a Companies House accounts deadline costs. Given the due date, returns days remaining or overdue, the penalty band already incurred, and what the next band costs, the number that makes someone act today. UK private companies only. |
| list_jurisdictions | The countries this server knows about and what it can actually do in each: which have a real accounts engine, which registers can be searched or looked up, the currency, and the identifiers each jurisdiction files under. Call this first when unsure. |
| sample_accounts | A real worked example: nil turnover, a director loan, a near-empty bank account, the simplest accounts the UK regime permits. Use it to demonstrate check_accounts or as a template for a first-year company. Amounts in major units. |
| lookup_company | Look a company up on its public register (Companies House for GB, ABN Lookup for AU) by its registered number. Returns the full public record: name, status, registered office, officers, SIC codes, accounting period, plus both filing deadlines with days remaining and the late-filing penalty already incurred if overdue. Rate limited and quota-charged; cached results are free. Find the number first with search_companies. |
| search_companies | Find a company by name on its public register and get back its registered number, status and address. This is how you reach lookup_company when the person only knows the name. Free of the daily quota; lightly rate limited. |
| get_prior_year_figures | Read last year's figures out of the company's last filed accounts at Companies House, ready to drop into the *Prior fields of check_accounts or save_filing. Saves typing seven numbers from a PDF and gets the comparatives exactly as filed. GB only, and only when the last accounts were filed digitally. Quota-charged; cached results are free. |
| explain_accounts | A plain-English reading of a set of figures, written for a director who is not an accountant: what the derived balance sheet says about the company and anything that needs attention before filing. Only the derived sheet is sent to the model, no company name or number. Quota-charged; identical figures are answered from cache free. |
| categorise_transactions | Categorise bank-statement transaction descriptions into the fixed vocabulary this product maps to balance sheet lines (sales, software, owner-in, …). Send description strings only, never amounts or dates. Sum the amounts per returned category yourself, then call totals_to_figures. One statement import is one quota unit; previously seen descriptions are answered from a shared cache free. |
| check_filing_extension | Whether a company can still apply to its registrar for more time to file, how many days are left to apply, and what being late costs if that window is missed. This is usually the most useful thing to tell somebody who has just found a deadline: applying is free, takes about 15 minutes, and has to be done BEFORE the deadline it extends, so the option expires on the same day the penalty starts. Returns nextAction first. It PREPARES an application and can never submit one: the application is made by a director on the registrar’s own service, which this tool links to. It does not file accounts. Give a company number to read the deadline off the register (quota-charged, cached results free), or give the dates yourself and it costs nothing. |
| draft_extension_reason | Turn a short factual account of what went wrong into the reason text for an application for more time to file accounts, framed in the terms the registrar actually applies. It uses only the facts you give it: it will not invent circumstances, and where something is missing it leaves a bracketed placeholder rather than filling it in. The person must check every sentence before using it, because they are certifying it to the registrar. Ask them what happened, do not supply it yourself. This tool does not submit the application and does not file accounts. Quota-charged as an explanation; identical input is answered from cache free. |
| list_saved_filings | The user's saved filings, most recently touched first, with every figure in major units. This is the same list the website dashboard shows. Start here when asked about "my accounts" or "my company". |
| save_filing | Save a set of figures to the user's account, or update a saved one by passing its id from list_saved_filings. Figures in major units. The filing is saved even when validation finds problems, because a work in progress is worth keeping, and the problems come back in the response so you can raise them. |
| delete_filing | Delete one saved filing by id, permanently. Confirm with the person before calling this; there is no undo and no trash. |
| track_company_deadlines | Watch a company by its register number and get reminded before its filing deadlines. Which channels are actually available depends on the server: the reply reports what will really be sent, and it can be nothing at all, so read it rather than assuming. No saved filing is needed: this is for the deadline itself, which matters months before any figures exist. Reminders go out on a ladder of days before the deadline (default 90, 60, 30, 14, 7, 1), and each one states the company, the deadline, the date, the days remaining and the penalty for missing it. Calling this again updates the settings and un-mutes a company that was untracked. |
| list_tracked_companies | Every company this user gets deadline reminders about, including the ones implied by their saved filings. Shows the next accounts deadline and days remaining where a register record is already cached. Free: this never contacts a register. |
| untrack_company_deadlines | Stop sending deadline reminders about a company. This mutes rather than forgets, which is the only thing that holds: a company implied by a saved filing would otherwise be re-added by the next scan. track_company_deadlines un-mutes it again. |
| server_status | What this deployment can actually do right now: which integrations are configured, whether your token is valid, and how much of each daily quota you have left. Call it when a tool refuses and you want to know whether the feature is off or used up. |