How the Independent Schools Council created a misleading headline on VAT
The Independent Schools Council received a survey on parents’ responses to VAT on private school fees. It was statistically meaningless,
2 June 2024
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
There is currently press speculation that Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner failed to pay CGT on her house sale. Ms
There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles
Brooks Newmark & Co Ltd, run by former Conservative MP Brooks Newmark, lobbied for foreign PPE suppliers during the pandemic,
There’s an updated and much more detailed analysis on CGT here. The chart above shows what happens if you plot
I’ve written previously about a business called Mogul Press, which spams people on social media from fake profiles, often with
Labour seems set to introduce VAT on private school fees. We thought it would be helpful to set out the
Fujitsu has indicated that it’s willing to help compensate victims of the Post Office scandal. But will this be a
In 2016 and 2017, libel firm Carter-Ruck acted for a business called OneCoin, and threatened defamation proceedings against people who