Council tax on expensive homes: could the Budget raise £1bn+?
The Government needs money. Council tax is regressive – high-value properties pay a trifling sum in comparison with their value.
23 August 2025
The Government needs money. Council tax is regressive – high-value properties pay a trifling sum in comparison with their value.
Reports suggest Labour may introduce capital gains tax on home sales in the Autumn Budget. It sounds like an easy
There has been a huge amount of controversy over the inheritance tax changes in last year’s Budget. They raised £500m,
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has proposed large increases in gambling taxes to raise £3bn. The £3bn would
In July 2022, I wrote that I thought Nadhim Zahawi had lied about his taxes. I was right. Nadhim Zahawi
Chancery Law & Tax is “one of the UK’s leading providers of Legal Services”. It appears to have no employees
As The Times has reported, there’s evidence that Dundee United claimed R&D tax relief for a quarter of its players’
Henley & Partners’ 2025 Wealth Migration Report says 16,500 UK millionaires will leave this year. That’s a very small percentage, which is surprising
A UK wealth tax is often promoted as an easy revenue-raiser that would only affect the very rich. Our analysis
In the past five years, 600,000 people who owe no tax have been charged HMRC late-filing penalties. The penalties start
One man has set up a series of fake banks on Companies House – with real bank names, no checks,
The “Offshore Advisory Group” publishes political commentary including conspiracy theories originating in Russian propaganda outlets. It uses the attention this
There’s a tax paradox in the UK. Overall, we’re paying more tax as a percentage of GDP than at any
Reform UK is proposing a “Britannia card” that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the
The “tax gap” is the difference between the tax HMRC should collect and the tax it actually collects. Over the
Angela Rayner’s leaked tax memo to Rachel Reeves outlines a raft of new revenue raisers. In this post, I look
A new analysis by Tax Policy Associates shows that 900,000 UK companies have no UK directors – all their directors
Political parties’ local branches are failing to pay tax on their commercial income – even when that income is funded
It’s sometimes said that we should go back to the tax system of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with very
Last month, parents backed by the Independent Schools Council made a legal challenge against the Government’s decision to charge VAT