Our take on the Conservative manifesto
The Conservative manifesto is here, and an accompanying costings document is here. It proposes £6bn of tax cuts in 2024/25,
11 June 2024
The Conservative manifesto is here, and an accompanying costings document is here. It proposes £6bn of tax cuts in 2024/25,
The Lib Dem manifesto is here, and a separate costings document is here. It claims to raise £27bn from tax
The Lib Dems are proposing a 4% tax on share buybacks that they say would raise £1.4bn/year. It’s based on
Stamp duty is a terrible tax. The Tories want to abolish it for most first time buyers. But the evidence
The Green Party says it will raise £50bn in tax from the “richest”. But their proposal will probably end up
The Conservative Party has just proposed moving the point at which child benefit is phased out from income of £60k
The general election tax debate has been irrelevant. The few £bn being discussed is dwarfed by the actual tax UK
Some people on social media are convinced that Jeremy Hunt avoided tax when he bought seven flats through a company
The Independent Schools Council received a survey on parents’ responses to VAT on private school fees. It was statistically meaningless,
All three political parties say they can raise £5bn or more from cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion. How
Nadhim Zahawi’s attempt to silence me has now resulted in disciplinary action for his lawyer. This is a short piece
We wrote in January about some of the ways private schools might try to avoid Labour’s proposed 20% VAT on
We are aware of a new form of VAT fraud which came close to stealing £m from HMRC last week,
It’s very hard for normal people to understand tax legislation, and it’s often equally hard for tax lawyers, unless they
Aside from the labelling of nil offers which we accept was inappropriate, and without waiving
privilege in their advice,
There’s a campaign claiming that you can legally stop paying tax to protest the war in Gaza, or even that
Thanks to pollsters WeThink, we polled public attitudes to paying more tax to provide the NHS with additional funding. We
Until last week’s Budget, someone earning £50k with three children under 18 faced a marginal tax rate of 71%. That
A very strange High Court decision was just published – Webster v HMRC. It reveals that an unknown person or
There was an intriguing report from Sky News yesterday that UK Finance had warned its members that 800 fraudulent forms