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When debt payments can be taken from your wages, changing how much you pay, paying it off early, and reporting a change to your circumstances
Find out what help you can get to help you manage your debts.
Get help to make a Time to Pay arrangement if you are an individual or business who owes a debt to HMRC.
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
Guidance for insolvency practitioners to help their clients restructure their company’s finances using a debt restructuring scheme or plan.
This briefing explains what individuals and businesses should do if they cannot pay what they owe to HMRC.
Making someone bankrupt is one way to recover money owed to you – bankruptcy petition fees and download a guide to creditor bankruptcy petitions
Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct
What you need to know if you are a creditor with a debt listed in a Debt Relief Order (DRO).
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.
This paper sets out the criteria HMRC will use to identify vulnerable customers in relation to Direct recovery of Debt legislation.
The official receiver may use debt collection agencies to collect debts and income payments agreements.
If you're owed money in a bankruptcy or company liquidation case, use a Proof of Debt form to register as a creditor and make a claim for the money you're owed
If someone owes you money, you can use this form (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.
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