Adrian Whitehurst and his wife Christine from Cheshire have been disqualified for a total of 24 years for their conduct in First Step Finance Ltd, a personal client debt solutions and management company. Adrian Whitehurst, a director of the...
Read more...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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Free Seminar for Start-Ups and New Businesses Bretts Business Recovery, Barnes Roffe and Hatten Wyatt have teamed up to bring you a series of business seminars designed to help start-ups and young companies 'Future-Proof' their businesses and how...
Read more...Increasingly in our experience the HMRC are more regularly seeking to use Schedule 41 of the Finance Act 2008 to recover tax from Directors personally. The Act gives them the ability to pursue the director personally in certain circumstances. It...
Read more...The government has made an announcement that it is proposing a 3 month moratorium (see definition below) from creditor action for insolvent or near-insolvent companies. R3 has welcomed this proposal having made their own suggestions...
Read more...A CVA (Company Voluntary Arrangement) is similar to the personal IVA (individual voluntary arrangement), which allows a company with cash flow or debt problems to reach agreement with its unsecured creditors regarding repayment of all, or part of...
Read more...In our previous article we looked some of the advantages and disadvantages of the Living Wage, now we are looking at some more specific issues the Living Wage could bring to industry. The living wage will put pressure on industries where...
Read more...Understanding the Minimum & Living Wage A national minimum wage sets the minimum hourly wage rate that is acceptable in law. A national minimum wage has been law in the UK since 1999, when the adult hourly rate was set at £3.60. The...
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Thank you to all those that took part in our Brexit poll last month. We were overwhelmed with the response numbers. Despite the Brexit overload in the media people were keen to share their opinions. Our survey was designed to gauge who or what our...
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