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United Kingdom source reference

UK late commercial payment boundaries

Official contract-date, statutory fallback and optional recovery boundaries for UK business payments. This United Kingdom source reference supports 1 Margin101 public page.

Official sourceReferencecash flow and payment times

Current monitored claims

ValueScopeLabel
Agreed terms first; reviewed statutory fallback applies when no date is agreedBusiness transactions only. Margin101 does not determine whether longer terms are fair or enforceable.Contract and statutory payment-date boundary
A supplier may claim interest and debt-recovery costsA possible right is not evidence that a charge will be exercised, enforceable in the actual dispute or collected.Optional statutory recovery right
Terms may be agreed and a supplier may choose whether to charge interestThe article models the contractual due date and forecast receipt separately.Contractual terms and supplier choice

Source status

Official source
GOV.UK
Status
verified
Cadence
quarterly
Last checked
2026-07-18
Effective
No separate effective date recorded
Version
2026-07-18

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Why Margin101 tracks this source

Official contract-date, statutory fallback and optional recovery boundaries for UK business payments. It is kept within the united kingdom small-business data layer so linked Margin101 pages can state their market assumptions and evidence scope clearly.

Page fit

  • Market: United Kingdom
  • Category: cash flow and payment times
  • Authority: GOV.UK

Reader note

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  • Market-wide background lives on the hub, not repeated on every source page.

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  1. Initial publication

    Published the verified UK late commercial payment boundaries source reference in the en-gb DataHub.

    Source
    GOV.UK — UK late commercial payment boundaries
    Version
    2026-07-18
    Change type
    published
  2. No change

    Margin101 checked the archived official evidence supporting UK late commercial payment boundaries.

    Source
    GOV.UK — UK late commercial payment boundaries

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Source notes

GOV.UK late commercial payments and payment obligations guidance. The monitored claims are educational reference context; the scope shown in the table controls how Margin101 uses each claim.