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Use this form to apply to the court to close or wind up a company if it can't pay its debts. This is also known as 'compulsory liquidation'.
Guidance on how a director can apply to wind up their company and the restrictions on re-using a company name.
An alternative to liquidation - reschedule payment to creditors to recover from insolvency
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
The Insolvency and Companies List was formerly known as the Companies Court. We handle cases relating to the insolvency of companies, including: petitions to wind up a company applications to unfreeze bank accounts or challenge a winding up petition applications...
Use this form to change the registered office address of a company in liquidation, or if you're restoring a company, or if it has a default address.
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.
Tell Companies House of an order deferring the date of dissolution in members' voluntary liquidation or creditors' voluntary liquidation, for a company registered in Scotland.
What insolvency means for limited companies and their directors.
Detailed information about the Insolvency Service’s investigation and enforcement work, how we achieve our outcomes and how to complain about misconduct.
Use this form to give notice of removal of liquidator by company meeting in MVL.
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