Criminalising tax avoidance – I’ve changed my mind
We’ve investigated many tax avoidance schemes. None of them had any technical merit – indeed many were closer to tax
20 October 2025
We’ve investigated many tax avoidance schemes. None of them had any technical merit – indeed many were closer to tax
Nik Storonsky, the billionaire founder of Revolut, has reportedly left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai – a
PPE Medpro is the company which provided £200m of PPE to the Government in dubious circumstances, of which £122m was
We now have enough information to be able to answer the question of whether Angela Rayner will be subject to
Last Tuesday, I awoke to an email from the High Court, rejecting an attempt to silence me with an interim
Reports suggest Labour may introduce capital gains tax on home sales in the Autumn Budget. It sounds like an easy
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
As The Times has reported, there’s evidence that Dundee United claimed R&D tax relief for a quarter of its players’
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