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If a limited company owes you money, you can use Form SD1 (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.
Information from the Certification Officer on levy eligibility, how to pay and how the levy is calculated.
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.
Guidance for creditors of a debt that has been placed in a ‘breathing space’.
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
This page provides links to guidance produced by, or relating to, the Insolvency Service
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.
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
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.
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