by Mike Lewis | Oct 26, 2026
Commentary on the Burnham government’s first budget is likely to be dominated by big-ticket changes to tax policy: broadly speaking, what taxes, and at what rates, should apply to different kinds of income and people. That’s as it should be. Getting the shape of our...
by Mike Lewis | Aug 13, 2026
Tackling the tax gap is back in vogue. (If it ever went out of style). Boosting tax revenues without raising taxes is appealing to any government, but especially to one that has big new plans but has inherited strict fiscal rules. Day 3 of the Burnham administration...
by Mike Lewis | May 19, 2026
Yesterday afternoon (18 May), MPs quizzed senior officials from the UK’s tax authority about how they are making the biggest multinational companies pay their due taxes. They raised TaxWatch’s research multiple times, and HMRC provided some important new facts – but...
by Mike Lewis | May 3, 2026
A UK company which forms part of one of the world’s largest oil trading multinationals is paying 80 percent of its profits to another part of the multinational in the low-tax Swiss canton of Zug — shrinking its taxable profits in the UK. Our new...
by Mike Lewis | Apr 30, 2026
Full report Executive summary A UK company which forms part of one of the world’s largest oil trading multinationals, and which handles much of its oil trading business, has since 2009 been paying four-fifths of its operating profits to a related company in the Swiss...
by Mike Lewis | Feb 27, 2026
Today the National Audit Office (NAO) publishes its first assessment in over a decade of how effectively HMRC is chasing the missing tax revenues of Britain’s biggest companies. TaxWatch was pleased to give evidence to the NAO’s enquiry, whose headline...
