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Apr 13, 2026 Investigations

The questions Richard Tice isn’t answering

Richard Tice isn’t denying that Quidnet REIT, his property company, failed to pay around £120,000 of tax when it paid dividends to Mr Tice and his offshore trust. He says it doesn’t matter, because he paid tax in full. That’s wrong: Quidnet’s failure to withhold REIT tax was unlawful, and the £120,000 remains due. But […]

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Apr 7, 2026 Analysis

Inside a fake tax refund factory

Updated 3.45pm on 7 April 2026 with Welcome Accountancy’s legal threat. The internet is full of people promising effortless tax refunds. For many, the business model is simple: invent expenses, file claims at volume, and take a cut. These “refund factories” exploit HMRC’s “process now, check later” systems, operating largely out of sight – but […]

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Mar 13, 2026 Investigations

Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking

A major vulnerability in the Companies House website gave unauthorised access to the private dashboard of any of the five million registered companies for five months. It exposed directors’ home addresses and email addresses, and enabled attackers to change company and director details – and even file accounts. This article sets out what we know, […]

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Mar 13, 2026 Investigations

MP Estate Planning: the unregulated firm selling defective trusts to the elderly

MP Estate Planning is an unregulated advisory firm using an extensive social media campaign to sell expensive “asset protection trusts” to elderly homeowners, often of relatively modest means. The pitch is simple: put your home into a trust and you can avoid inheritance tax, care home fees, divorce claims and creditors. Our investigation, drawing on […]

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Kamal v Tax Policy Associates

31. In the circumstances, the pleading that it was ‘false and misleading’ to suggest that a
judicial finding of breach of duty had been made against him is incapable of forming a
part of the just disposal of Mr Kamal’s libel claim. The attempt to do so is an abuse of

the court’s processes. I grant the Defendant’s application to strike out [5(b)] of Mr
Kamal’s particulars of claim.

Mar 11, 2026 Analysis

We defeated an £8m libel claim – and it shows libel law and the Tax Bar need reform.

Last month, the High Court threw out an £8m libel claim brought against me by tax barrister Setu Kamal. The Court held that key parts of the claim were legally hopeless, gave summary judgment on the rest, and ruled that the case was a SLAPP: litigation brought to silence criticism in the public interest. An […]

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Feb 25, 2026 Investigations

The bizarre UK group selling US tax fraud to hundreds of Britons – and prosecuting its critics

Simon Goldberg and his UK-based organisation, Empower the People, are running an elaborate scheme to defraud the US Government. The group files fake US tax returns to trick the IRS into refunding their members’ everyday UK consumer spending – a practice the US tax authorities have repeatedly warned is fraudulent. When YouTuber Salim Fadhley publicised […]

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