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Find out what help you can get to help you manage your debts.
Find out how to account for VAT and who to contact if you're an insolvency practitioner and you're appointed over insolvent VAT-registered businesses.
Companies wound-up by the High Court following Insolvency Service investigations
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
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
Insolvency Service investigation found that Encore Capital Group Inc Ltd failed to fully hand over the money it collected
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 Includes information from the withdrawn...
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
Find out about the progress of improving coastal access including maps, process and timing in Cornwall.
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