by Paul Brindley | Feb 5, 2021 | Ethics & Regulation, Personal Debt
It’s been a long time coming… Anyone who knows me well knows how I hate IVAs with a passion, how I think they are an abused process, how I think IVA providers have dragged the reputation of the insolvency profession into the gutter by sending people down...
by Paul Brindley | Jan 11, 2021 | CVLs, Director Disqualification, Ethics & Regulation, Upsettable Transactions
A few days ago the legal case ‘Cage Consultants Limited v Iqbal & Iqbal’ was reported, a quite interesting case in which the liquidator of the company sold his claims against the directors of a company, where the directors argued that the assignee...
by Paul Brindley | Aug 21, 2020 | Administration, Advice to Directors, Alternatives to formal insolvency, CVAs, CVLs, Ethics & Regulation
HMRC have just issued some fresh policy guidance, dated 13 August 2020, on their collection of debts. Click on the red to go to the actual guidance. How HMRC treats customers who have a tax debt. Note that HMRC says here that: ‘There is no standard Time to Pay...
by Paul Brindley | Jun 15, 2020 | Administration, Advice to Directors, Ethics & Regulation
I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but there has been an ongoing debate among insolvency practitioners, lawyers, the government and others about ‘light touch’ administrations? What’s a ‘light touch’ administration?...
by Paul Brindley | Jun 3, 2020 | Advice to Directors, CVLs, Ethics & Regulation
There is a bill passing through the Houses of Parliament right now that gives HMRC powers to make a company officer (eg director) jointly and severally liable for the Income Tax charge raised in relation to any CJRS payment to which the company was not entitled or any...
