Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s – despite 98% tax rates
It’s sometimes said that we should go back to the tax system of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with very
8 May 2025
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
ZLX is the R&D tax the firm notorious for suing a client who wasn’t willing to put in a comical
The Friday 4 April episode of Untaxing was the peculiar story of a tax firm, ZLX, that promised a client
Today’s episode of Untaxing is about Jaffa cakes and VAT. With the benefit of hindsight, that’s a very small VAT
Art Laffer drew a curve on a napkin in 1974 that he said proved that tax cuts would pay for
It wasn’t mentioned in the Chancellor’s speech, but the Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals,
I’m presenting and co-writing a new short Radio 4 series, Untaxing. It’s about how tax affects our lives: from the
OneE made £10 million selling doomed R&D tax schemes – leaving investors with nothing and taxpayers footing the bill. Here’s
UK company law requires every UK company to disclose the individuals who control it – their “person with significant control”
A firm called Arka Wealth have widely promoted a tax scheme which they claim avoids all corporate tax, income tax,
Many fraudulent companies at Companies House are run by entirely fake directors – non-existent people with fabricated identities. But many
A mining giant claiming £4bn in revenue, certified by a fake auditor on 128 pages of meticulously detailed fake accounts.
We’ve been reporting on the shockingly brazen accounting frauds that slip through Companies House. Our new web-based fraud-finding tool takes
Anyone can set up a company on Companies House, and say it’s a bank. We’ve written an automated tool that
We’ve created an automated search tool that crawls Companies House data to find companies with fraudulent accounts. It’s found hundreds
Avis Capital Limited is one of the largest companies in the UK. It says it was spun out from Avis
It’s often claimed that tax cuts will “pay for themselves”. There’s good reason to believe that some historic tax cuts
New data suggests that one third of the farm estates affected by the Budget changes aren’t owned by farmers –
Despite the Government’s stated commitment to growth, the Budget included no pro-growth tax reform, and its largest revenue raising measure