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Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments

• When a payment becomes late

  You can claim interest and debt recovery costs if another business is late…

• Interest on late commercial payments

  The interest you can charge if another business is late paying for goods…

• Claim debt recovery costs on late payments

  You can also charge a business a fixed sum for the cost of recovering a…

Insolvency Service investigation found that Encore Capital Group Inc Ltd failed to fully hand over the money it collected

• Updated: 26 February 2025

Find out what help you can get to help you manage your debts.

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.

• Updated: 4 March 2025

Website of Brighton and Hove City Council

• Updated: 26 June 2025

The DMO carries out the government’s debt management policy of minimising financing costs over the long term, taking account of risk. We minimise the cost of offsetting the government’s net cash flows over time, while operating in a risk appetite...

• Updated: 15 April 2021

How to prioritise and reduce your debts, and where to get free debt advice

• Updated: 21 December 2017

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 Includes information from the withdrawn...

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

Guidance for creditors of a debt that has been placed in a ‘breathing space’.

• Updated: 22 July 2021