by Alex Dunnagan | Dec 29, 2021
UK Government has announced an extra £510m boost to DWP to fight benefits fraud following the pandemic. This is in addition to £103m already announced in the spending review HMRC spending £155m to tackle covid related fraud TaxWatch estimates the increase in benefits...
by George Turner | Sep 27, 2021
27th September 2021 Analysis shows that tech giants would pay less in taxation in market jurisdictions under G7 global tax deal than under current digital services taxes. Proposals put forward by the G24 group of nations ahead of next month’s crucial meeting of the...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jun 8, 2021
TaxWatch analysis shows that package agreed at the G7 would lead to a tax cut for tech companies subject to the Digital Services Tax On Saturday 5th June G7 finance ministers announced an agreement on changing the tax rules for global multinational companies. The deal...
by George Turner | Feb 19, 2021
A new report from TaxWatch: “Equality before the law? HMRC’s use of criminal prosecutions for tax fraud and other revenue crimes. A comparison with benefits fraud”, reveals the huge disparity between the way in which benefits crime is treated in the UK...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 27, 2020
In 2013, investigative journalist and former tax-inspector Richard Brooks published The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became A Tax Haven For Fat Cats And Big Business, which exposed the scale of tax avoidance in the UK, looking at the role of multi-national...
