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Guidance for creditors applying to take a debt recovery step, cancel or amend the ‘breathing space’, or have a debt removed.
Find out what help you can get to help you manage your debts.
Determine financial eligibility for legal aid: check household income, calculate living costs, enforcement action, apply for hardship or eligibility review.
This briefing sets out HMRC's approach to collecting tax debts and customer support as the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) and deducting any money an employee owes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from their pay
If a limited company owes you money, you can use Form SD1 (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.
Northern Region Judge Mr J Murray and Tribunal Member Ms Latham sitting n 23 August 2023
Get help to make a Time to Pay arrangement if you are an individual or business who owes a debt to HMRC.
If your employer is 'insolvent' this means it cannot pay its debts - your rights if this happens, claiming money owed to you, where to get advice
Debt recovery if you're owed money from people or businesses in an EU country.
What to do if you receive a county court judgment (CCJ) - how to get it set aside or change what you pay, what happens if you do not pay, how to search the register. Includes information from the withdrawn...
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.
This briefing explains what individuals and businesses should do if they cannot pay what they owe to HMRC.
Check timescales for the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) to process your work (eg prior authority application, graduated fee claims).
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
This guidance explains what the Community Infrastructure Levy is and how it operates.
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