Liquidate Your Company
Enter liquidation and close down your company with the least cost and most tax efficient route.
You may qualify for Redundancy Payments which can cover costs and leave money over for you.
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Advantages Of Voluntary Liquidation
Keep more control - close your company on your terms
Gives directors a clean break
Allows you to close a potentially insolvent company with no further liability (unless debts have been personally guaranteed).
Quick and cost effective
Can be funded using company assets such as cash at bank, sale of assets, book debts etc.
Your duties as a director
It shows creditors you have done the right thing by taking professional advice and can steer you away from the implications of wrongful trading.
Claim redundancy payments
Employees and potentially directors can make a claim from the National Insurance Fund and receive payments for outstanding wages, holiday pay, pay in lieu of notice and redundancy.
Bounce Back Loans and Liquidations
Can I liquidate my company if it has taken out a Bounce Back Loan?
In short yes. Businesses may still find trading difficult during or after this turbulent period, even with the extra funds from the loan. Recovery may not be realistic so liquidation and closure is the most suitable course of action.
What happens to the loan in liquidation?
In the event of a company being liquidated, the bounce back loan turns into unsecured debt.
Can I be held liable for an unpaid bounce back loan?
Not usually. In the event of a company being liquidated, any personal guarantees signed by a director means that director remains liable for the debt.
Directors however, generally are not liable for an unpaid bounce back loan when looking to close a company because they usually 100% guaranteed by the Government and not by the director.
Government Funded Redundancy Payments
When an insolvent company closes, employees may be able to make a claim from the National Insurance Fund and receive payments for outstanding wages, holiday pay, pay in lieu of notice and tax free redundancy.
This can cover the cost of the liquidation and leave money over for you.
I was going through a difficult period. To discover I was entitled to over £14,000 redundancy, tax free, when I closed my company changed everything.
Types of Company Liquidations
Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation
A Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation (CVL) is when an Insolvent Company's directors voluntarily close the business. Please contact us for your personal quote.
This process offers more control over being forced into compulsory liquidation.
Redundancy Payments may be claimable from the Nationinal Insurance fund.
Learn MoreMembers’ Voluntary Liquidation
Is your company solvent with assets over £25,000? Then a Members’ Voluntary Liquidation (MVL) is probably best.
This enables proceeds to be taken as capital gains tax rather than income tax - so it can be the overall most cost-efficient exit route.
Learn MoreCompulsory Liquidation
A Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation (CVL) is when an Insolvent Company's directors voluntarily close the business by the appointment of a liquidator.
Worried about Compulsory Liquidation or facing a Winding-Up Order?
Don't Panic!
You have several potential routes to avoid compulsory liquidation.
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