by Mike Lewis | Oct 7, 2026
Britain is haemorrhaging billionaires, we’re told. Nearly every week brings a news report that the government’s tax plans are driving another member of the Rich List to pack up for foreign shores. The latest is the raft of media stories last weekend that...
by Mike Lewis | Sep 26, 2026
Full report Executive summary This case study examines the Liberty Mundo network, a group of websites and social media channels marketing offshore tax, asset protection, cryptocurrency privacy tools and multiple-residency services directly to retail consumers. These...
by Jack McConnel | Sep 26, 2026
Read the report A group of websites that aim to bring tax and financial strategies once associated with the ultra-wealthy to a much wider consumer audience is offering advice from named ‘experts’ whose identities TaxWatch has been unable to verify. A TaxWatch...
by Jack McConnel | Jul 10, 2026
Yesterday HMRC released its 2026 Report & Accounts. This is the annual occasion when it’s the tax authority’s turn to show its financial sums. There’s much to dig into, but here we take a look at how HMRC’s tax compliance function is doing....
by Mike Lewis | Jun 23, 2026
You might be forgiven for thinking that it was a good news story. Today HMRC released its ‘tax gap’ figures — its detailed estimates of the amount of due taxes that have gone unpaid thanks to error, carelessness, avoidance, evasion and fraud. The tax gap is a...
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...