by Alex Dunnagan | Feb 10, 2021
Here at TaxWatch we are hugely proud to announce that we have been listed in ITR’s Global Tax 50 2020-21 (paywall). International Tax Review’s Global Tax 50 is an annual list of “the most influential figures and events in fiscal policy over the past...
by Alex Dunnagan | Feb 4, 2021
The news that Amazon’s sales in the UK have ballooned over the last year have sparked the traditional headlines about Amazon’s tax bill (or lack of it). This article looks to tease out some of the complex issues that arise from Amazon’s tax structure in the UK. There...
by George Turner | Jan 14, 2021
Following the 2008 financial crisis and a series of high profile scandals, the issue of tax avoidance and evasion was brought to the fore of public concern. There has been a concerted effort to tackle this on both a domestic and an international level. HMRC has...
by George Turner | Jan 11, 2021
As reported in the Financial Times today, HMRC has opened a number of criminal investigations into fraud following enquiries into transfer pricing schemes used by large corporations.1 News of this new approach first emerged in response to a question I posed to Simon...
by George Turner | Dec 8, 2020
Netflix, tax reform and the unreal nature of digital taxation Netflix has announced that it will be reporting the billions of pounds of revenues it gets from its European customers to their local tax authorities. In the UK, customers have received an email telling...
by Alex Dunnagan | Dec 1, 2020
Our team Director – Mike Lewis Mike Lewis has twenty years’ experience as a researcher and investigator. He has worked as a criminal financial investigator for a UN war crimes body, as a sanctions expert for the UN Security Council, as a civil society...
