Economic Crime Levy Insolvency Process for Insolvency Practitioners
Summary
HMRC has published Insolvency Practitioner Bulletin 1 (2026) establishing a new digital process for submitting Economic Crime Levy returns and deregistering entities when businesses become insolvent. The bulletin provides guidance specifically for insolvency practitioners on complying with Economic Crime Levy obligations through HMRC's online services. The guidance was published on 10 April 2026.
What changed
HMRC published guidance establishing a new digital process for insolvency practitioners to submit Economic Crime Levy returns and deregister entities upon business insolvency. The bulletin supersedes previous procedures and introduces HMRC's online system as the mandatory channel for these submissions.
Insolvency practitioners affected by this guidance should familiarise themselves with the new digital workflow and ensure their compliance systems are updated to reflect the required process changes. This is an administrative update rather than a substantive change to Economic Crime Levy obligations.
What to do next
- Review HMRC guidance on Economic Crime Levy insolvency process
- Use new digital process for levy returns during insolvency
- Use new digital process for entity deregistration when insolvent
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Insolvency practitioner bulletin 1 (2026): Economic Crime Levy — insolvency process
This bulletin tells you about the new digital process insolvency practitioners must use to submit Economic Crime Levy returns and deregister an entity when it becomes insolvent.
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This bulletin explains how insolvency practitioners must now deal with Economic Crime Levy when a business becomes insolvent.
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Published 10 April 2026
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