UK Insolvency

HMRC's latest comment concerning 'Time to Pay' (TTP) arrangements has stated that TTP will not be available where companies are paying out dividends to their shareholders.

The Insolvency Service is still "in listening mode" in relation to its February 2011 Consultation on Reforms to the Regulation of Insolvency Practitioners, according to a presentation on 15 June by its Director of Policy, even though the consultation...

Directors appointing administrators under paragraph 22(2), Schedule B1, Insolvency Act 1986 must give notice of intention to appoint to the company (pursuant to paragraph 26(2), Schedule B1, Insolvency Act 1986 and Rule 2.20(2)(d), Insolvency Rules 1986). The "record of the...

HMRC recently issued statistics for the Business Payment Support Service for the three months ended March 2011, their headlines, as you would expect, are the level of support they have provided to date and the reducing level of applications received since the scheme was introduced at the end of 2008.

The balance sheet test for insolvency (section 123(2), Insolvency Act 1986), first addressed by the High Court in August 2010, has been revisited on appeal. The first instance conclusion that each case should be decided on its legal (rather than...