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
22 July 2025
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,
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
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 firm notorious for suing a client who wasn’t willing to put in a comical R&D
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”
Many fraudulent companies at Companies House are run by entirely fake directors – non-existent people with fabricated identities. But many
It’s often claimed that tax cuts will “pay for themselves”. There’s good reason to believe that some historic tax cuts
Despite the Government’s stated commitment to growth, the Budget included no pro-growth tax reform, and its largest revenue raising measure