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Dealing with the affairs of a debtor who dies during the bankruptcy process or the estate of a deceased insolvent
This page provides guidance on how to submit information about employee pensions to the Redundancy Payments Service (RPS).
There are potential consequences for you, the director, if your company suffers insolvency.
If you鈥檙e unsure about an email, letter, call or text you receive from the Insolvency Service, get in touch with us.
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.
Details on RP14 and RP14A upload
Guidance on appointing an insolvency practitioner and handing over the estate. Including the use of the official receivers' rotas and vacancies in office.
Complain to the Insolvency Service if a director or sole trader is re-using the name (or a similar name) of a company in compulsory or creditors鈥� voluntary liquidation.
A dissolved company is one that has been removed or 鈥榮truck off鈥� from the Companies House register. Once dissolved the company is no longer able to trade.
Dear IP is updated quarterly and issued by the Insolvency Service to insolvency practitioners and other interested stakeholders
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The 2021 IVA Protocol should not be used after 30 June 2025 . These documents are for reference only.
Income Tax and National Insurance contributions must be deducted from any wages paid to company employees.
Information about director's loans.
Powers, duties and functions of the Official Receiver including situations where those powers are limited by law or by internal operational rules
This chapter gives advice to Official Receivers on carrying out a decision-making process under the insolvency legislation, in particular the process to effect the appointment of an insolvency practitioner as liquidator or t鈥�
Directors have specific duties if their company becomes insolvent. These still apply if it is trading or if trading has stopped.
Creditors' voluntary liquidation (CVL) is when the directors take steps to close down the company.
Recovering sums due in respect of antecedent recoveries such as excessive pension contributions, misfeasance of directors, voidable dispositions and transactions defrauding creditors
This is purely a bankruptcy procedure. Information on procedure and the official receiver's role in applications for annulment of the order.
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