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Call HMRC if you're an authorised tax agent and need to discuss your client's debts
How to prioritise and reduce your debts, and where to get free debt advice
Guidance for creditors of a debt that has been placed in a ‘breathing space’.
This briefing explains how HMRC will recover tax or tax credit debt directly from the bank and building society accounts of the small number of people who refuse to pay, and the safeguards that will be applied.
This tax information and impact note affects individuals and businesses who have debts of over £1,000 payable to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs under or by virtue of an enactment or under a contract settlement.
If someone owes you money, you can use this form (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.
Data on the amount of Housing Benefit that is overpaid to claimants, the overpayments recovered and amounts written off.
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