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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Guidance for creditors of a debt that has been placed in a ‘breathing space’.
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.
Find out when and how to pay your General Betting, Pool Betting or Remote Gaming Duty.
If a limited company owes you money, you can use Form SD1 (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.
How to take legal action if someone owes you money (small claims court), how much it costs, what happens next. Includes information from withdrawn guidance EX303, EX304, EX306, EX321, EX325 and EX350.
If you have a court order that's not been paid, use this form to ask the court to 'freeze' money held by a third party, such as the debtor's bank.
Form SD4: Statutory demand under section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt for liquidated sum payable immediately following a judgment or order of the court.
Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)
Information on the government’s financing plans for 2022 to 2023.
This Debt Fairness Charter is for people who owe personal debt to central government. It outlines how people repaying these debts should be treated.
Use a mediation service, send a statutory demand, go to court or make someone bankrupt if a person or business owes you money
Interest-free loans from the government for some people on benefits: how to apply, check if you're eligible
How your local council can help if you're struggling to pay Council Tax - and what action they can take to get any money you owe from you
Includes bankruptcy, insolvency and recovering debt
How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.
An alternative to liquidation - reschedule payment to creditors to recover from insolvency
Form SD3: Statutory demand under Section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt payable at future date.
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