by Paul Brindley | Oct 27, 2026 | Creditor, Supplier and Employee Issues
A director asks me: “The company owes HMRC VAT and PAYE. If it goes into liquidation, can HMRC come after me personally?” Usually, these are company debts. Limited liability doesn’t disappear because HMRC is the creditor. But there are exceptions, and two types of...
by Paul Brindley | Oct 15, 2026 | Advice to Directors, Creditor, Supplier and Employee Issues
When a company is struggling, directors often reach the same conclusion: the business could survive if the wage bill were smaller. Then comes the next problem. “We can’t afford the redundancies.” That can leave directors feeling trapped. Keep all the...
by Paul Brindley | Oct 14, 2026 | Advice to Directors, Creditor, Supplier and Employee Issues
A director rings me with a question I hear in different forms quite often: “Our biggest customer has gone into administration. They owe us £120,000. What do we do?” The first instinct is to concentrate on recovering the £120,000. Understandable, but there...
by Paul Brindley | Sep 23, 2026 | Creditor, Supplier and Employee Issues
A winding-up petition is one of those documents directors cannot afford to put in a drawer and think about next week. It doesn’t mean the company is already in liquidation. But it does mean a creditor has asked the court to wind it up, usually because the creditor...
by Paul Brindley | Aug 25, 2026 | Advice to Directors, Creditor, Supplier and Employee Issues
There isn’t a great deal of government money readily available to businesses at the moment. However, Research and Development tax relief remains an established route through which companies undertaking genuine innovation may obtain valuable tax support, improving...
