by Mike Lewis | Apr 8, 2026
There are different reasons for not paying due tax: from genuine mistakes to criminal fraud. At the more serious end of the scale is evading tax liabilities on purpose. Deliberately providing HMRC with inaccurate or false information. Deliberately failing to tell them...
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 | 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 Mike Lewis | Nov 26, 2025
Budget’s third-largest tax pledge relies on UK tax authority that is suffering from recruitment delays and unfinished IT systems Just 26 of 6,700 extra compliance/debt staff promised by Chancellor are so far in post Decision to retain tax on digital...
by Mike Lewis | Nov 19, 2025
What is Rachel Reeves’ second-biggest revenue-raising policy so far? As well as being a question for the most niche pub quiz ever, It’s something that would be near-impossible to guess from the public debate in the run up to this year’s Autumn...
by Mike Lewis | Nov 19, 2025
Full report HMRC is under pressure. Generational demands on key areas of public spending from defence to social care to special educational needs; a Treasury adhering to strict fiscal rules on borrowing; and a government struggling to minimize breaches of its...
