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What you need to know if you are a creditor with a debt listed in a Debt Relief Order (DRO).
This page provides links to guidance produced by, or relating to, the Insolvency Service
This director information hub is a home for information and guidance to help current and future directors. It only takes a minute to learn the essentials.
Director Conduct Reporting Service for insolvency practitioners as statutory office-holders. This page links to the online application.
Corporation Tax and VAT for limited companies.
A guide to what happens to a PPI claim after someone has been made bankrupt in England and Wales.
Directors have specific duties if their company becomes insolvent. These still apply if it is trading or if trading has stopped.
Guidance for debt advisers who need to create and submit a DRO application.
Details of the definition of a creditor and rights to participate in insolvency proceedings
Obtaining Income Payments Agreements (IPA) and Income Payments Orders (IPO) from bankrupts, including the matters to be taken into account when calculating the sum to be paid
Full guidance on what happens when you're made bankrupt.
Dividends are payments made to shareholders from company profits after Corporation Tax.
information about how to complain about misconduct to the Insolvency Service and what we will do about it.
This document contains information related to the effect of a disqualification order.
As company director, you take on many legal requirements and duties. You must know what they are and when you need to complete them.
Dealing with the affairs of a debtor who dies during the bankruptcy process or the estate of a deceased insolvent
This document contains information related to company investigations and The Insolvency Service.
Detailed information about the restrictions on the re-use of company names, when a director can re-use a company name after insolvent liquidation, how to apply for permission to use a prohibited name and how to complain.
How to claim money back from a person that is bankrupt or a company that is in liquidation.
Appointing a new director to your limited company.
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