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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…

Companies wound-up by the High Court following Insolvency Service investigations

• Updated: 18 August 2025

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

How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.

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 how to account for VAT and who to contact if you're an insolvency practitioner and you're appointed over insolvent VAT-registered businesses.

• Updated: 23 October 2025

Website of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

• Updated: 26 June 2025

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

Statutory demands are a formal way of asking for a debt to be paid - get the forms to send, cancel or set aside a statutory demand.

What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors