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Causes of business failure in personal insolvency

Debt Administration, Insolvency Law, Insolvency practices, Insolvency Statistics, Personal Bankruptcy, Phoenix company activity Comments Off

Aug 132015

What reasons are given for the failure and insolvency of non-corporate businesses, i.e., those owned by individuals as sole traders or in partnership? Is there any alignment between the reasons given for non-corporate business failures and the reasons given for corporate failures? And where a non-corporate (aka personal) business insolvency has been brought about by the phoenix scheme of a corporate customer or client, is this made known to the regulator for statistical purposes?

This article is an extension of the discussion in my post “Confusing causes of corporate insolvency”. Continue reading »

Compelling first day at inquiry into construction industry insolvencies

Assetless companies, Corporate Insolvency, Debt Administration, Employee Entitlements, Insolvency Statistics, Official Inquiries, Phoenix company activity, Regulation, White collar crime Comments Off

Jun 192015

(19/6/2015) A lively public hearing before the Senate Committee looking into insolvency in the Australian construction industry has been told by several speakers that sub-contractors should be protected by requiring head contractors to place money in trust funds. The Committee also heard about debt collection methods, outlaw bikie gangs and new allegations concerning events leading up to the collapse of Walton Construction in October 2013.

Those appearing before the Committee on 12 June 2015 included Mr Dave Noonan, National Secretary of the Construction and General Division, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), representatives of the Subcontractors Alliance, Project Resources, Masonry Contractors Association of NSW, EcoClassic Group Pty Ltd and Erincole Building Services Pty Ltd.

MORE TO COME: At the close of the day Senator Cameron said: “Chair, there might be other issues once we have a look at the Hansard. We might need to get some of this group back again further on. This inquiry is going to run for a bit of time yet, so we will need to have a look, see what you said and come back.”

The official Hansard transcript of the hearing on 12 June 2015 was recently published on the Parliament’s website. A PDF copy of the 56 page transcript may be downloaded from that site by clicking here.

Compliance by personal insolvency practitioners in 2012-13

Debt Administration, Insolvency practices, Insolvency Statistics, Personal Bankruptcy, Regulation, Standards Comments Off

Jan 242014

A Federal Government report on compliance by insolvency practitioners who work in the field of personal bankruptcy and insolvency, and are governed under the Bankruptcy Act 1966, was released on 16 January 2014. The 29 page report, published by Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA), is titled

“Personal insolvency practitioners compliance report 2012-13”.

The phrase “personal insolvency practitioners” refers to Registered Trustees in Bankruptcy and Registered Debt Agreement Administrators.

A list of the CONTENTS is published below. For a copy of the report (PDF) CLICK HERE.

Free Insolvency & Recovery Services Directory

Corporate Insolvency, Debt Administration, Industry People, Insolvency Consultants, Personal Bankruptcy, Services Directory Comments Off

Jan 142014

On the Insolvency Interface blog site menu

I have created a directory facility for insolvency practitioners, lawyers and other consultants that provide specialist insolvency and recovery services (corporate and personal) to list their names and contact details. This facility is available free of charge and obligation free until 30 June 2014.

Just click on the menu item “Insolvency & Recovery Services Directory” (above).

Then on “Submit a Listing”, and follow the prompts. You will be asked to enter your category of service, business name, location, phone number, and a description of your services. You can also supply certain other information if you like, such as your web site address.

Visitors will be able search the directory by business name, category of service, location, etc.

Peter Keenan 14/1/2014