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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.
Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)
Tell the office dealing with your benefit straight away if: you think…
You may have to pay the money back if you’ve been overpaid. For example,…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can recover benefit…
How you pay back the overpayment depends on: whether you’re making…
Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments
Use this service if you need to repay debt to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
This briefing sets out HMRC's approach to collecting tax debts and customer support as the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Get help to make a Time to Pay arrangement if you are an individual or business who owes a debt to HMRC.
Guidance for creditors applying to take a debt recovery step, cancel or amend the ‘breathing space’, or have a debt removed.
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.
How to prioritise and reduce your debts, and where to get free debt advice
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