Is the Chancellor working from the wrong spreadsheet?

Is the Chancellor working from the wrong spreadsheet?

by | Oct 26, 2026

Last week it emerged that Number 11 has decided against one of the biggest potential tax changes being considered for the upcoming Autumn Budget. According to sources first reported byThe Times, the Chancellor has decided not to increase the rate of capital gains tax...
Five things we’d like to see in the Budget

Five things we’d like to see in the Budget

by | 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...
Private justice, public loss

Private justice, public loss

by | Apr 30, 2026

Full report Executive summary A UK company which forms part of one of the world’s largest oil trading multinationals, and which handles much of its oil trading business, has since 2009 been paying four-fifths of its operating profits to a related company in the Swiss...
MPs ask tough questions about closing the tax gap

MPs ask tough questions about closing the tax gap

by | 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,...