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Details of the definition of a creditor and rights to participate in insolvency proceedings
Form Bank 4: Bankruptcy petition for default in connection with voluntary arrangement.
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.
Debtors can use this form to apply to solicitors for the petitioner under the Insolvency Act 1986.
Update - January 2024
This page provides a full list of published guidance about the following processes administered or regulated by the Insolvency Service:
Ad-Hoc Management Information release on levels of statutory fee recovery made on bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation cases from 2017/18 to 2021/22
A final stage assessment of the impact for a bankruptcy petition reform measure to be included in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.
Dealing with the affairs of a debtor who dies during the bankruptcy process or the estate of a deceased insolvent
Form used in insolvent partnership order.
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