by Jack McConnel | Oct 30, 2026
Much of the pre-Budget noise in recent weeks has been about how to tax wealth and the wealthy. In the event, nothing much has changed in terms of tax policy. But snuck out alongside the Budget was a significant new piece of the administrative puzzle: HMRC’s ‘Wealthy...
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 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 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 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...
