A guide, not advice. This explains how things generally work. A licensed insolvency practitioner will tell you what applies to your company or to you.
Can I write off my company's HMRC tax debts?
Not by asking - HMRC doesn't negotiate debt forgiveness with trading companies, and anyone marketing "HMRC write-offs" is selling one of the formal routes below with the honesty removed.
What actually reduces or ends HMRC debt
Time to Pay - full payment, rescheduled; nothing written off, everything survivable.
A CVA - creditors including HMRC vote to accept a proportion over years, with the shortfall written off on completion; HMRC scrutinises and frequently shapes these proposals.
Liquidation - unpaid company tax without personal attachment dies with the company; the write-off is real, and so is the company's ending.
The personal caveats
The write-off reaches you only as far as limited liability does: Personal Liability Notices for NI in neglect cases, security demands, the anti-phoenix rules for repeat patterns, and conduct claims all sit outside it.
The honest framing
The question behind the question is usually viability: a viable company reschedules; a non-viable one closes properly and the debt ends with it - both legitimate, neither a trick.
0333 023 5090 - a licensed practitioner will tell you which applies, without the marketing.
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