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As company director, you take on many legal requirements and duties. You must know what they are and when you need to complete them.
Details of the definition of a creditor and rights to participate in insolvency proceedings
Dividends are payments made to shareholders from company profits after Corporation Tax.
There are potential consequences for you, the director, if your company suffers insolvency.
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.
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…
Details on RP14 and RP14A upload
This guidance deals with the circumstances in which the Registrar of Companies may dissolve a company
Corporation Tax and VAT for limited companies.
If you’re unsure about an email, letter, call or text you receive from the Insolvency Service, get in touch with us.
Reusing a company name is prohibited and subject to specific restrictions.
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.
Distribution by means of a dividend or division of property
This page provides a full list of published guidance about the following processes administered or regulated by the Insolvency Service:
General guidance on securing, protecting and realising insolvent estates
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…
Rights of action
Members’ Voluntary Liquidation (MVL) is used when a company can pay its debts but the members (shareholders) want to close it.
When you become the director of a limited company, you should be aware of the legal requirements and duties involved.
This document contains information related to company investigations and The Insolvency Service.
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