Prerequisites

For sites with CCH Central

Installing CCH iXBRL Review & Tag 2026.1

This release is installed using the Central Suite Installer. This ensures that all prerequisites are in place and that all the products for which you are licenced are installed in the correct sequence. Click here to learn about the Central Suite Installer.

If you have installed Review & Tag on workstations, these are automatically updated the first time that you launch the workstation instance of the software while connected to the network. Please refer to the CSI installation instructions for more information.

For non CCH Central Sites

If you are not a Central user you should use the standalone installer. This needs to be run on each computer on which CCH iXBRL Review & Tag is installed. Please refer to the separate installation instructions for details.

Microsoft Prerequisites: Please note that the standalone installation requires the following Microsoft components to be present:

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 - for further information click here to go to our Knowledge Base FAQ article

Downloading and installing the Standalone version 

Click here to visit the Non-Central suite downloads page  (Wolters Kluwer login required). Select the CCH iXBRL Review and Tag download.  
 

Quality Improvements

CCH Review and Tag

ADO 425446 - 2026 taxonomies

The 2026 taxonomies have been added, however it is NOT reccommended they are used until the 2026.2 release.

ADO 419745 - Add support for nonNegativeDecimalItemType

The 2025 Taxonomies introduced a new tag type which was used for the "Average number of employees during the period" tag. The nonNegativeDecimalItemType has now been added to allow this tag to be used without error.               

ADO 424230 - Section 480 Validation warning

The section 480 warning was updated to include bus_EntityStatus condition.

ADO 444097 - Updated the Standalone installation package

The following dll's have been re-added to the installation package which was causing an error when attempting to import a word document.

  • DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll
  • DocumentFormat.OpenXmlExtension.dll
Sr. No Name of the Taxonomy Displayed as 
  1.  
FRS-102-2025-01-01 FRS-102-DPL-SECR-2025-01-01 
  1.  
FRS-101-2025-01-01 FRS-101-DPL-SECR-2025-01-01 
  1.  
FULL-IFRS-2025-01-01 FULL-IFRS-DPL-SECR-2025-01-01 
  1.  
CHAR-FRS102-2025-01-01 CHAR-FRS102-2025-01-01 
  1.  
IE-FRS-102-2025-01-01 IE-FRS-102-DPL-2025-01-01 
  1.  
IE-FRS-101-2025-01-01 IE-FRS-101-DPL-2025-01-01 
  1.  
IE-IFRS-2025-01-01 IE-IFRS-DPL-2025-01-01 

The new taxonomies are selected from Document Information screen: 

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Details of acceptance dates for the new and prior taxonomies as per the HMRC website are as follows: 

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Online Filing Configuration

Following the migration of the CCH iXBRL Review and Tag licence to sit within CCH Central in the 2022.1 release, some customers received an error message when attempting to click on the hyperlinked filing status:

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After re-entering the credentials the message persisted. We advised users to restart Central as the cache still retained the old data.

We have now added a warning message so that when a change is made to the iXBRL Settings advising that Central needs to be restarted:

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Note: The warning message ONLY appears if CCH Central or CCH iXBRL Review and Tag are open when the changes are made.

Licence Count Warning Message

Following the upgrade to 2022.1 Customers licensed for CCH iXBRL Review and Tag but not for Online Filing were receiving one of the following messages:

  1. CCH iXBRL Review & Tag all current Companies House submissions have been used and you will not be able to make any further submissions. Please contact your account manager to discuss any additional licenses.
  2. CCH iXBRL Review & Tag only xxx Companies House submissions are left and you will not be able to make any further submissions when these have expired. Please contact your account manager to discuss any additional licenses.

Note: These messages only appear for customers licensed for online filing. 

Information message appearing every time on launching R&T

Following the upgrade to 2022.1, after updating pin for other products, Customers were receiving the following Information message every time CCH iXBRL Review & Tag was launched: 

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This message only appears when R&T is launched for the first time after updating pin in CCH Central. 

Restart Central and R&T desktop application on any credential change

In the 2022.1 release, users reported that the cache still held details in memory after changing any CCH iXBRL Review & Tag Settings; we advised users to restart CCH Central. We now provide an information message, advising to restart both CCH Central and CCH iXBRL Review & Tag when settings have been changed.

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Legal Notice

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