Fact Sheets

The Business Debt line in the UK is a great resource to small business. They provide some excellent fact sheets as well as telephone advice and support.

As well as the advice contained on this site, and the extra help available to you by phoning one of our advisers, we have also published a range of fact sheets giving you more information on different aspects of debts and arrears.

All fact sheets are available for you to print off and use for future reference.

UPDATE – this is an old article and many links my no longer work or content may be outdated Page originally written in 2011

Type of business

• Dealing with Debts of a Limited Company
• Partnerships
• Sole Traderships

Recovering Payments

• Credit control
• Claims in the county court

Priority debts

• Bailiffs and the Council Tax
• Business leases
• Business rates
• Dealing with tax debt
• Dealing with debts in the High Court
• Domestic mortgage arrears
• Domestic rent arrears
• How to deal with hire purchase debts
• Magistrates court fines
• Time orders in the county court

Secondary debts

• Administration orders
• Attachment of earnings in the county court
• Charging orders
• Credit reference agencies
• Free Debt-Management Plan (DMP)
• Harassment
• How to make offers in full and final settlement
• Mortgage Shortfalls
• Replying to a county court claim
• Suspending a bailiff’s warrant and reducing the instalments on a county court judgement
• What if a creditor refuses my offer?

Insolvency

• Bankruptcy
• Individual voluntary arrangements
• Dealing with a statutory demand

UK Court processes

• Administration orders
• Attachment of earnings in the county court
• Charging orders
• County court bailiffs
• Dealing with debts in the High Court (206KB)
• Interest charges on a consumer credit judgment (139KB)
• Setting aside a county court judgment (67KB)
• Replying to a county court claim (6.15MB)
• Suspending a bailiff’s warrant and reducing the instalments on a county court judgement
• Time orders in the county court

Business Debtline (BDL) is a charity — part of the Money Advice Trust (MAT) — formed in 1991 to increase the quality and availability of free, independent money advice in the UK. Call them in confidence and free on 0800 197 6026