By Steven Wiseglass, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner | Corporate Recovery & Insolvency A County Court Judgment (CCJ) against company records stays on the register for six years from the judgment date. The one exception is payment [...]
An active proposal to strike off means a live process is running to remove your company from the Companies House register. The company still exists and can still be saved in the moment, but a [...]
First Published September 2026. Last Updated October 2026. A CVL does write off HMRC debt, but not on the day the liquidator is appointed and not in the way most directors expect. The unpaid balance [...]
By Steven Wiseglass, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner | First published August 2026, Last updated October 2026 | Corporate Recovery & Insolvency If a creditor has threatened to wind up your company, your options depend entirely on [...]
By Steven Wiseglass, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner at Inquesta. IPA regulated, Fellow of R3, 20+ years' experience advising directors and creditors on company closure and recovery. A first gazette notice means Companies House intends to remove [...]
By Steven Wiseglass | Corporate Recovery & Insolvency expert | Licensed Insolvency Practitioner | Founder & Director Inquesta First published July 2026. One of the very first questions directors will ask when considering liquidation is [...]
By Steven Wiseglass, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. Published May 2026. If you're awake at 3am worrying about your company's debts, you're not alone. Over twenty years as an insolvency practitioner, I’ve dealt with hundreds of directors [...]
The Bounce Back Loan Scheme gave millions of UK businesses a financial lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, for many company directors, those lifelines have become anchors, dragging down businesses that were already struggling to [...]
Your company is in the red and you’re searching for ways of clearing debt quickly. You've found company exit services online promising to buy your company with debt for £1, eliminate creditors, and complete your [...]
Received notice of a creditors meeting and worried about what happens next? The very first thing you need to know is that, despite the name, a creditors meeting isn't actually a meeting — or at [...]