Help for novice and Ltd company corporation tax pickle please.

Hi there,

I am in a bit of a pickle regarding a ltd company that i set up. The story starts when i wanted to work for this online company called Arise.com, working from home as a customer service adviser for shopdirect group. Arise only let you work for them as a ltd company or under an umberella company as self employed.

So i was ill advised about the ltd situation by Arise who made it sound really easy. I was previously self employed and have treated the ltd company in the same way, by taking a wage from my monthly payment from Arise.com.

So in total over 6 months March to August 2009 i made a total of £1625, so that works out about £270 a month wage.

So i made no profits barely a living thats why i dissolved my company in december 2009. The issue is i could not afford an accountant on my small income and honestly thought i could manage it myself. I did the companies house stuff but then comes the corporation tax form. The first time i filled it in wrong and put my £1625 in the profits box and got a request for £342 corp tax...of which i don't have, so i re did my form after speaking to hmrc and now all of a sudden they want the following:

Directors report, Balance sheet, and Profit and loss, The question is really is that i haven't a clue what i'm doing and is there any way i can cut this tax down? If i was self employed i wouldn't have earned enough for tax, i paid my NI all the time. I'm just at my wits end as i do not have any spare cash for an accountant or corp tax as have been unemployed since the company folded.

I have all my invoices to prove my income and kept reciepts for hardware equipment i had to buy which comes to about £480, does electricity or heating come into play?

I just need a helping hand please to maybe give me a little guidance as to which way to go, someone did say to me about striking it off, but i don't know anything about that either. I know i should not have opened my company, but a lesson has been learned and i was desperate for work from home to fit with the children.

Sorry about the long post and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Claire.