MORE than £7.5 million in unpaid council tax and business rates will be written off.

Despite complaints from insolvency practitioners that staff and budget cuts at the Insolvency Service are allowing unscrupulous directors to escape justice

PENDLE Council has had to write off more than £230,000 in unpaid debts.

Consumer debt passed to Debt Collection Agencies(DCA’s) or sold to Debt Buyers has officially passed the £60 billion figure for the first time

Activity in the UK construction sector was down 10.1% in the year to July, the Office for National Statistics said.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is currently talking to at least 13 debt collection firms over the recovery of 5m worth of debt

A new guidance from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is set to triple the amount that businesses can be fined for stepping beyond permitted competition boundaries.

Well over half the complaints made against the taxman are upheld by HM Revenue & Customs’ own internal complaints system.

CANCELLING a telephone and broadband package when out of the specified contract period should be relatively straightforward.

The Bank of England has voted to keep interest rates at 0.5% and hold fire on pumping any more money into the economy through its quantitative easing programme.