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Jan 6, 2026
Investigations
Samuel Leeds: the “property guru” and his bogus tax loopholes
Samuel Leeds is a self-proclaimed “property guru”. He makes substantial sums by using hard-sell tactics and conspiracy theories to sell expensive courses on property investment to people who can’t afford it. Mr Leeds makes an array of claims on social media about how to “pay zero tax” and “learn the tax loopholes that the rich […]
Nov 6, 2025
Investigations
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m PPE profits
During the pandemic, Douglas Barrowman’s company, PPE Medpro, sold £200 million of PPE to the Government. It made £65m profit, which went into trusts benefiting Barrowman and Mone’s families. Most of the PPE was later ruled to breach sterility standards but, rather than repay the money, Barrowman put PPE Medpro into administration. New documents show […]
Oct 23, 2025
Investigations
I’m being sued for £8m for a report on tax avoidance
I am being personally sued for more than £8m by a barrister, Setu Kamal. I believe this is one of the largest English libel claims ever made. Mr Kamal objects to a report we published back in February about a firm called Arka Wealth (which appears to have since gone out of business). In September […]
Aug 4, 2025
Investigations
Tony Gimple and Chancery Law & Tax: a one-man argument for the regulation of tax advice
Chancery Law & Tax is “one of the UK’s leading providers of Legal Services”. It appears to have no employees or directors with any legal or tax qualifications. It’s owned by a man called Tony Gimple. Mr Gimple’s previous firm, Less Tax for Landlords (aka the One Consultancy Group) promoted a landlord tax avoidance scheme. […]
Jun 29, 2025
Investigations
Offshore Advisory Group: Russian conspiracy theories selling doomed tax planning
The “Offshore Advisory Group” publishes political commentary including conspiracy theories originating in Russian propaganda outlets. It uses the attention this attracts to sell a tax avoidance scheme that supposedly lets UK businesses escape UK tax by incorporating in Gibraltar. The scheme is hopeless and will trigger large taxes and penalties – and if not disclosed […]
May 8, 2025
Analysis
Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s – despite 98% tax rates
It’s sometimes said that we should go back to the tax system of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with very high rates of tax on the highest earners. We’ve spoken to people who were around at the time – both tax avoiders and HMRC officials – and looked at the data. Our conclusion: the apparently […]
Mar 26, 2025
Analysis
Radical anti-avoidance measures hidden in the Spring Statement
It wasn’t mentioned in the Chancellor’s speech, but the Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted this will, in effect, criminalise the tax avoidance industry. We welcome it. There is a mini-industry of creating tax avoidance schemes which have no prospect of success. We […]
Mar 24, 2025
Analysis
How do promoters get rich from selling hopeless tax avoidance schemes?
OneE made £10 million selling doomed R&D tax schemes – leaving investors with nothing and taxpayers footing the bill. Here’s how they did it, and here’s how we would change the law to end the tax avoidance industry for good. The scheme involved an attempt to use research and development tax relief to generate tax […]
Feb 26, 2025
Investigations
TikTok tax avoidance from Arka Wealth: why the Government and the Bar should act
A firm called Arka Wealth have widely promoted a tax scheme which they claim avoids all corporate tax, income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax – not just in the UK but across Europe. They work with a barrister called Setu Kamal, who they say is “one of Europe’s leading tax barristers”. Arka Wealth’s […]
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