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Companies House filing showing Nikolay Storonsky changing his residence from UK to UAE

Could we have stopped Revolut’s founder from leaving the UK?

Nik Storonsky, the billionaire founder of Revolut, has reportedly left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai – a

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11 October 2025
Property118 - a duff inheritance tax structure

The problem with unregulated tax advisers: a scheme from Property118 that could cost clients £100k+

Most of the HMRC losses from tax avoidance aren’t from multinationals or billionaires – they’re from small businesses, who’ve often

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6 October 2025

PPE Medpro made £200m but never filed full accounts. The law should change.

PPE Medpro is the company which provided £200m of PPE to the Government in dubious circumstances, of which £122m was

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4 October 2025

Did Keir Starmer use a trust to avoid inheritance tax?

When Sir Keir Starmer gave a field to his parents, he used a “life interest trust”. This meant that, as

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28 September 2025
Carter-Ruck - the UK's most famous libel firm, keeps accidentally acting for fraudsters

Carter-Ruck: the libel firm trying to cover up that they’d acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud

Libel firm Carter-Ruck used the threat of legal action to protect one of the world’s largest financial frauds, OneCoin, which

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18 September 2025
photo of Angela Rayner

Why Angela Rayner is likely to pay £8,000 in stamp duty penalties

We now have enough information to be able to answer the question of whether Angela Rayner will be subject to

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5 September 2025

An incompetent attempt to silence me by tax barrister Setu Kamal

Last Tuesday, I awoke to an email from the High Court, rejecting an attempt to silence me with an interim

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4 September 2025

Herran Finance – another fake bank at Companies House

Every Monday morning, we publish an updated list of every PLC in the UK that has failed to file its

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3 September 2025

Axiom Ince: a £64m failure; a £4,300 penalty for their accountants

Law firm Axiom Ince failed in October 2023, with £64m of client money missing – losses ultimately covered by the

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2 September 2025
model houses

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.

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23 August 2025
houses

Will Labour tax your house sale? Why CGT on homes makes no sense

Reports suggest Labour may introduce capital gains tax on home sales in the Autumn Budget. It sounds like an easy

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21 August 2025
a tractor working a field

A fair solution to inheritance tax on farms and small businesses

There has been a huge amount of controversy over the inheritance tax changes in last year’s Budget. They raised £500m,

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15 August 2025
IPPR report on increasing gambling tax

Why I’m torn on increasing gambling duties

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has proposed large increases in gambling taxes to raise £3bn. The £3bn would

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8 August 2025

The Zahawi libel story isn’t over – his lawyer is appealing

In July 2022, I wrote that I thought Nadhim Zahawi had lied about his taxes. I was right. Nadhim Zahawi

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5 August 2025
Tony Gimple saying "It's why HMRC say, if at some point you want to incorporate, go into a partnership first."

Tony Gimple and Chancery Law & Tax: a one-man argument for the regulation of tax advice

Chancery Law & Tax is “one of the UK’s leading providers of Legal Services”. It appears to have no employees

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4 August 2025

Was R&D tax relief used to subsidise football players’ wages?

As The Times has reported, there’s evidence that Dundee United claimed R&D tax relief for a quarter of its players’

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31 July 2025
chart showing H&P data has an anomalous % of odd numbers; other comparable data does not

Are Henley & Partners’ millionaire‑migration reports fabricated?

Henley & Partners’ 2025 Wealth Migration Report says 16,500 UK millionaires will leave this year. That’s a very small percentage, which is surprising

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27 July 2025
a chart showing the number of OECD countries applying a wealth tax declining from 12 in 1990 to four today

Wealth taxes: high risk, unworkable and anti-growth

A UK wealth tax is often promoted as an easy revenue-raiser that would only affect the very rich. Our analysis

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22 July 2025
a bill from HMRC sent to Andrea for almost £9,594.79. Andrea never owed HMRC any tax.

600,000 HMRC penalties issued to low-income earners who owe no tax

In the past five years, 600,000 people who owe no tax have been charged HMRC late-filing penalties. The penalties start

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6 July 2025

Who’s behind the fake banks on Companies House?

One man has set up a series of fake banks on Companies House – with real bank names, no checks,

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4 July 2025

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