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...
by Mike Lewis | Feb 12, 2026
Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee argues in its latest report, released yesterday, that tax compliance is crushing small businesses. Aside from concerns about tax levels and thresholds (about which there is much more to say, especially regarding VAT and...
by Mike Lewis | Feb 2, 2026
On Saturday the Sunday Times published its annual ‘Tax List’ – the celebratory counterpart to its better known ‘Rich List’, claiming to list the people that are the country’s top individual taxpayers. As in previous years, the list has fueled claims that millionaires...
by Mike Lewis | Jan 14, 2026
Yesterday (13 January) Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee grilled HMRC’s chief and senior staff about their efforts to tackle tax avoidance, evasion and debt. MPs referenced TaxWatch research and investigations in questions about corporate tax reliefs,...
by Jack McConnel | Dec 18, 2025
As the year turns, 2026 will see the start of the biggest change in a generation for how nearly three million people will do their taxes: the catchily-titled Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA). From April 2026, digital record-keeping and...
by Chris White | Dec 2, 2025
Last week’s Budget underscored the government’s struggles to balance the books without raising taxes or cutting services. Yet one source of lost revenue – offshore tax evasion – remains persistently under-policed and under-discussed. It appeared...
