Disclaimer
Last updated 3 October 2026
We write these guides to help owners who are retiring, closing or moving a business, or running a smaller operation. We want them to be useful, and we take care over them. But they are general information and education only. They are not advice about your business or your situation.
Information, not advice
Nothing on this site is legal, tax, financial, accounting, insolvency, employment, pensions, property, valuation, or health and safety advice. The guides cannot take account of your circumstances.
Before you act on anything you read here, check it with a qualified adviser or a competent person who knows your situation. This matters most where safety, the law, tax, your staff, or other people's money or property is involved.
How the guides are written
The guides are written for a general audience. Solicitors, accountants, engineers and other specialists do not review each guide. Laws, guidance, prices and markets change, and a guide may be incomplete, out of date or wrong. We do not promise that any guide is accurate, complete or current.
Figures and examples
Prices, fees, timescales, calculations and examples in the guides are illustrations. They are not valuations, quotes or offers, and they do not predict what your assets will sell for.
Safety
Equipment, stock and premises can be dangerous to make safe, dismantle, move or clear. The guides are not instructions for that work. Follow the manufacturer's instructions and the law, and use competent people.
Our responsibility
You use the information on this site at your own risk. To the fullest extent the law allows, UK Auction Group Ltd accepts no liability for any loss or damage that arises from your use of, or reliance on, this site or its guides. This includes loss of profit, revenue, business, savings or opportunity, and any indirect or consequential loss.
Nothing in this disclaimer limits or excludes any liability that the law does not allow us to limit or exclude, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Links to other websites
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Business Closure Guide is part of the UK Auction Group portfolio. businessclosureguide.com is operated by UK Auction Group Ltd, registered in England and Wales (Company No. 16130124). Reading this site does not make you a client of UK Auction Group or create any agreement with it. Any valuation, sale or other service is agreed separately, on UK Auction Group's own terms.
Corrections
If you think something in a guide is wrong or out of date, please tell us and include the page address. We will review it.
Law
This disclaimer is governed by the law of England and Wales.