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What you can consider doing if your company is in financial difficulty.
How HMRC uses debt enforcement powers, debt collection agencies and what happens if you live abroad when you do not pay your tax bill.
Even the best-run business can face unexpected challenges and solvency issues. It's important you recognise the signs and understand your duties as a director.
Check the list of voluntary and community sector organisations funded by HMRC who can give you extra support with your tax or claims such as tax credits or Child Benefit.
Service access and guidance for creditors and money advisers about Breathing Space
What you need to know if you are a creditor with a debt listed in a Debt Relief Order (DRO).
Appeal a debt adviser’s decision to include your address in a ‘breathing space’ for a debt that you owe.
Guidance on what to do if you're struggling financially as a result of your student finance entitlement being reduced, because you were overpaid.
This call for evidence seeks views on the role played by the Money Advice Service (MAS).
Interest-free loans from the government for some people on benefits: how to apply, check if you're eligible
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
Guidance for creditors applying to take a debt recovery step, cancel or amend the ‘breathing space’, or have a debt removed.
Find out how to make sure that your charity’s money is safe, properly used and accounted for.
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
The Money Advice Service has published its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019.
Monitoring insolvency practitioners: Advertisements, marketing and debt advice
How to apply for bankruptcy: how long it lasts, bankruptcy restrictions, what happens to your home and assets when you're bankrupt.
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