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How HMRC uses debt enforcement powers, debt collection agencies and what happens if you live abroad when you do not pay your tax bill.
Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments
You can claim interest and debt recovery costs if another business is late…
The interest you can charge if another business is late paying for goods…
You can also charge a business a fixed sum for the cost of recovering a…
Guidance on debt relief orders for debt advisers. To search, press ‘control’ and ‘f’ on your keyboard at the same time. A search box will appear.
Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)
Get help to make a Time to Pay arrangement if you are an individual or business who owes a debt to HMRC.
How to prioritise and reduce your debts, and where to get free debt advice
This briefing sets out HMRC's approach to collecting tax debts and customer support as the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
Statutory demands are a formal way of asking for a debt to be paid - get the forms to send, cancel or set aside a statutory demand.
This Tax Information and Impact Note explains the new measure that will increase the amount of debt which can be recovered by coding it out.
Detailed information about the Insolvency Service’s investigation and enforcement work, how we achieve our outcomes and how to complain about misconduct.
This briefing explains what individuals and businesses should do if they cannot pay what they owe to HMRC.
Find out about assessments, interest charges and penalties for incorrect returns and late payments and how to appeal.
Guidance for insolvency practitioners to help their clients restructure their company’s finances using a debt restructuring scheme or plan.
Check if you can claim for bad debt relief if a customer is insolvent and can no longer pay what they owe for taxable aggregate.
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