Posts tagged "Tax Avoidance"
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Aug 5, 2026 Analysis

Property118’s tribunal win – it doesn’t help their clients; it looks vulnerable to appeal

We wrote in 2023 about a complex landlord tax avoidance scheme sold by an unregulated firm called Property118. HMRC subsequently opened enquiries into Property118’s clients, and determined that the firm should have disclosed the scheme. The First-tier Tribunal has just published a ruling on the narrow question of whether the scheme should have been disclosed […]
Mike Pugh, founder of MP Estate Planning. “Presto magic, there’s no tax.”
Mar 13, 2026 Investigations

MP Estate Planning: the unregulated firm selling defective trusts to the elderly

MP Estate Planning is an unregulated advisory firm using an extensive social media campaign to sell expensive “asset protection trusts” to elderly homeowners, often of relatively modest means. The pitch is simple: put your home into a trust and you can avoid inheritance tax, care home fees, divorce claims and creditors. Our investigation, drawing on […]
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Jan 31, 2026 Investigations

Emails show Peter Mandelson discussing Panama tax structure with Jeffrey Epstein

Previously unreported emails – first identified by Tax Policy Associates – show Peter Mandelson discussing with his “chief life adviser”, Jeffrey Epstein, a tax avoidance structure for the purchase of a £2m Rio apartment, involving a Panama company. Mr Mandelson told us that he has no recollection of the proposal, or knowledge as to the […]
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Jan 21, 2026 Analysis

Tax barristers and fraud: how the Bar responded to our allegations

Last week we published a report on how a small number of tax barristers facilitate tax avoidance schemes that are, in our view, more properly described as tax fraud. The barristers design the schemes, and/or issue opinions that the schemes work, despite the dismal history of such schemes in the courts over the last 25 […]
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Jan 16, 2026 Analysis

Rogue barristers are enabling a billion pound tax fraud – and the Bar won’t act

A small number of KCs and junior barristers are enabling large-scale tax fraud. They do it by providing tax opinions backing schemes designed to “avoid” tax on wages paid to contractors. The schemes have no real technical basis, but the promoters behind the schemes use the opinions as a badge of credibility – and, more […]
Samuel Leeds makes a false claim that you can avoid capital gains tax when renovating and selling property
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Tony Gimple saying "It's why HMRC say, if at some point you want to incorporate, go into a partnership first."
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. […]

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