1) Non-UK resident.
2) I run Web Design company since January 2013.
3) It hasn't made a sale since last year. It's been way more than 3 months since the last one.
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If your accounts have been filed up to date...
then you can just apply for strike off as you describe but I'd always advise to write to HMRC first to tell them that the company ceased trading (date) and that it has made no profits since and so is to be struck off.
You need to complete the company's accounts up to a date on or after it ceased to trade and send them to HMRC with a tax return up to the date of cessation.
Then once you have paid off all the company's creditors, including any corporation tax payable for that final period, you can apply for striking off using form DS01.
It's important to do thing in the right order.
No I am saying you need to prepare your company's accounts for the year ended 31 January 2015.
File DS01 now
Have you filed the accounts for the year to 31 January 2015? If so as you have not traded for over three months I would file the DS01 now. April 6 has nothing to do with company accounts or tax.
If your accounts and tax return for the year ended 31 January 2015 are already completed and submitted, I agree, with the proviso that you also have to make sure you pay off any creditors.
Presumably it was an HMRC penalty? HMRC are notorious for issuing penalty notices to companies when no penalties are due. It may well have been the case that no penalty was due in your case either, but if you have paid it the matter is closed. Next time take advice first.
Just in case
Even though you have submitted up to date accounts, unless they made specific reference to cessation of trade then you should still drop HMRC a line to tell them the company ceased trading on XXXX (I'd go for day of last sale) and that you have applied to have the company struck off.