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Apr 29, 2026 Analysis

Tax will go up but public services will get worse. This is why.

UK tax as a percentage of GDP is on course to be the highest since 1945. Over the next four years it will increase further. Government spending won’t increase as a percent of GDP over this period; given the ageing population, that means public services for most people are likely to decline. This article looks […]
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Apr 18, 2026 Investigations

Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions

Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, used his Quidnet property company’s REIT status to save tax. That meant Quidnet itself paid no corporation tax on its property business – but the quid pro quo was that its corporate shareholders had to pay tax on the dividends they received. They did not. Instead, Mr […]
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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 11, 2026 Investigations

Richard Tice’s property company failed to pay £120,000 in tax

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company – Quidnet REIT Limited. From 2020 to 2022 it paid around £600,000 of dividends to Mr Tice and his offshore trust. Quidnet was required by law to withhold approximately £120,000 of tax from those dividends and pay it to HMRC. But we believe […]
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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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