Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th April 2013
A Members’ Voluntary Liquidation is a shareholder-led process, which is a tax efficient method for bringing to an end the life of a solvent company. All creditors of the Company are paid in full and the surplus thereafter is distributed to the...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th April 2013
Section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 allows a liquidator to accept shares in a new company or companies as part or full consideration for the transfer of the whole or part of the business of the company in liquidation. This process can be used...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th April 2013
Administrations drop to lowest level since 2005 You may be surprised to learn that the number of companies entering administration in the first quarter of 2013 was at its lowest level since 2005. High profile retail casualties including HMV,...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th April 2013
Anecdotal evidence has suggested that HM Revenue & Customs have been adopting a hard line stance on businesses that fail to keep up with their payments to the Crown for some time now. Recent figures have seemed to confirm this. In the year...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th April 2013
A unique piece of racing history A unique piece of racing history has recently come our way in our capacity as liquidator of the Whitehouse Group Ltd. This Cooper Climax bobtail racing car was originally raced by Bill Whitehouse...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 14th March 2013
They are just as painful for small businesses Our research shows that it isn’t just the consumer who is seduced by the lure of quick and easy money to push forward plans to keep the business going. The problem occurs when this "quick and easy"...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 14th March 2013
Wrongful trading In these uncertain times, a director of a limited company needs to take extra care, especially when the company becomes unable to avoid liquidation. When a company is insolvent*, the director’s primary duty of care is to the...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 13th February 2013
Isobel Brett was recently asked to give a talk on employee relations to the inaugural meeting of a group of 20 local female business leaders in Gravesend. Having risen through the ranks of her organisation from staff member to manager and in the...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 13th February 2013
With Blockbuster following HMV, Jessops and Comet into Administration in the last three months with the loss of thousands of jobs and the threat of further job losses in the retail sector there has been considerable news coverage given to the fate...
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