by Mike Lewis | Nov 15, 2025
Estimating the impact of exempting US-headed groups from Pillar 2 taxes Full report On 28 June 2025, the UK Chancellor and other finance ministers from the G7 group of countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US) unilaterally announced that in...
by Mike Lewis | Sep 10, 2025
For a PDF version of this briefing, click here Executive summary Large online businesses – search engines, online retail platforms, social media – can generate revenues from users and customers while having limited or no taxable presence where those users and...
by Mike Lewis | Aug 7, 2025
Summary: UK ministers last month hailed five of the UK’s Overseas Territories for putting in place searchable registers to reveal who really owns companies in their territory – a key tool against tax evasion, money laundering and other illicit financial activities....
by Mike Lewis | May 23, 2025
Previously we found that HMRC is hardly using powers to investigate, penalise and publicise tax advisers who enable tax abuse. Here we look at why these powers aren’t being used: a barrage of legal roadblocks; and holding back on naming and shaming. *** When tax...
by Claire Aston | Feb 28, 2024
40% reduction in civil servants defined as ‘tax professionals’ from 2016 to 2023 The overall HMRC workforce has shrunk since 2010, despite the challenges of the department’s workload increasing as the tax regime has become more complex Salaries paid to senior HMRC...
