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This briefing sets out HMRC's approach to collecting tax debts and customer support as the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guidance for insolvency practitioners to help their clients restructure their company’s finances using a debt restructuring scheme or plan.
Includes recovering debts, registering for bankruptcy and as a creditor
Find out what help you can get to help you manage your debts.
What happens if you underpay import or export duties and who is responsible for the debt.
Your rights when bailiffs visit your home - entering your home, debts, complaining about private bailiffs, court bailiffs, civilian enforcement officers, certificated enforcement agents. Includes information from the withdrawn EX345 guidance.
Check if you can claim for bad debt relief if a customer is insolvent and can no longer pay what they owe for taxable aggregate.
Tax credit overpayments - repaying tax credits, repayment methods, what to do if you cannot repay
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
If you don’t have enough to live on while you wait for your first payment you may be able to get an advance of your first Universal Credit payment.
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
During Debt Awareness Week, we talk to Neil Sutton, a senior leader within the bankruptcy and Debt Relief Order teams at the Insolvency Service, about some of the options that can help people on their journey out of debt.
This page provides links to guidance produced by, or relating to, the Insolvency Service
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