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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.
This page provides a single entry point for tools and information for debt advisers.
Director Conduct Reporting Service for insolvency practitioners as statutory office-holders. This page links to the online application.
This page provides links to guidance produced by, or relating to, the Insolvency Service
General guidance about director disqualification sanctions, what they mean and applying for a licence.
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.
As company director, you take on many legal requirements and duties. You must know what they are and when you need to complete them.
Guidance for debt advisers who need to create and submit a DRO application.
This page provides guidance on how to submit information about employee pensions to the Redundancy Payments Service (RPS).
information about how to complain about misconduct to the Insolvency Service and what we will do about it.
Details on RP14 and RP14A upload
This page provides guidance for insolvency practitioners who need to set up a case with the Redundancy Payments Service.
Full guidance on what happens when you're made bankrupt.
Dividends are payments made to shareholders from company profits after Corporation Tax.
Dealing with an insolvent's freehold or leasehold property, including action to be taken to protect an interest in the property, steps to be taken where the property is the bankrupt's 'family home' and dealin…
A dissolved company is one that has been removed or ‘struck off’ from the Companies House register. Once dissolved the company is no longer able to trade.
Appointing a new director to your limited company.
Disclaiming property of the insolvency where that property is onerous, including the process to be followed for an effective disclaimer
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’ voluntary liquidation.
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