There are some legal aspects of being in business that just don't seem right.

Several years ago I had two publishers go bankrupt on me, owing a couple of thousand.

The law here deems that any debts owed to any govt. body take absolute preference over other debts. As in this case the companies both owed an amount to Customs & Excise (which administers the U.K. equivalent of sales tax) which exceeded their assets, the rest of us never saw a penny.