Untaxing on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
I’m presenting and co-writing a new short Radio 4 series, Untaxing. It’s about how tax affects our lives: from the
24 March 2025
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
Between 2018 and 2022, almost 660,000 people on low incomes received a penalty for not filing a tax return on
HMRC is alleging Mr Venables evaded nine years’ tax in his personal tax returns. Tax evasion (technically “cheating the revenue”)
This is an updated version of an article first published in 2023. What’s the very short answer? It’s this: (click
Gabriel Milland of Portland Communications has published polling conducted by the Portland research team in early October. Gabriel takes some
HMRC has designated two structures used by the adviser ‘Property118’ as “tax avoidance schemes”. Property118 are appealing to a tax
Nobody’s looking forward to tax rises in the Budget. To create at least some upside, we’ve made a simple Budget
Rachel Reeves has said there is a £22bn “black hole” in the public finances, and that she’ll have to raise