Personal debt

Understand your financial position
Ways to avoid insolvency
How insolvency affects you
Personal insolvency options
Life after insolvency

Business debt

Determining your type of debt
Company insolvency options
The liquidation process
The effect of liquidation on a company
The effect of bankruptcy on a business

Owed money?

Types of creditor
The claims process
Filing and withdrawing a claim
Requesting liquidation or bankruptcy
Creditors' meetings

What's new

Debtor prosecuted for misleading Official Assignee about name change

17 January 2019

Wellington debtor Tony Knight has been sentenced for seven offences under the Insolvency Act, including misleading the Official Assignee (OA) and incurring debt while bankrupt.

Our hours over the Christmas holiday period

6 December 2018

The Insolvency and Trustee Service will be closed from 3pm on Monday, 24th December 2018 until 8.30am on Thursday, 3rd January 2019.

MBIE investigating Gordon Paul Bayne

5 November 2018

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is investigating complaints made in relation to Gordon Paul Bayne, aka Paul Bayne.