Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 18th April 2017
A Director from a civil engineering and plant hire firm in Northern Ireland has been disqualified for six years in respect of his conduct as a director. Michael Fleville & Sons plant hire entered liquidation on 18 July, 2014, with estimated...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 27th February 2017
Business rates in the UK, Wales and Scotland are all up for revaluation. At revaluation, the government adjusts the value of business rates to reflect changes in the property market. It usually happens every 5 years. The most recent revaluation...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 11th January 2017
A director from an Indian Restaurant from the famous London Brick Lane district has been disqualified from acting as a company director for eight years after failing to provide proper accounting records. Mr MD Taj Uddin, 37, was the director of...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 21st November 2016
An accountant has failed in an appeal against a three year disqualification. The director was banned from being a company director after he paid trade creditors but not HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) when his business went into...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 23rd September 2016
In conjunction with HM Treasury, the Insolvency Service has imposed a new fee structure for bankruptcies and compulsory liquidations which came into force on 21 July 2016. The objective behind the new fee structure is for the Insolvency Service to...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 31st August 2016
The August issue of the Bretts Business Recovery newsletter is out now. Packed full with the latest business and insolvency news. To see a copy on-line please click here. Alternatively if you would like to receive our newsletter each month by email...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th August 2016
The online Business Supermarket says there was a 13% increase in the number of winding up petitions filed by HMRC in the last year in order to close businesses and meet unpaid tax bills,. HMRC filed 3,484 winding up petitions in 2015, up from the...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 10th August 2016
When a solvent company that has ceased to trade wants to be dissolved they have different options. It could be wound up voluntarily by its members or an application made to Companies House for the Company to be struck from the Register. Both...
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R3 Comments – Vast majority of British businesses brush off Brexit vote
Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 21st November 2016
R3 the trade body for insolvency practitioners has conducted a UK business survey which indicated the majority of UK businesses are managing to brush off the effect of the Brexit vote. Andrew Tate, president of R3, says: "The immediate shock of...
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