by Jack McConnel | Sep 26, 2026
Read the report A group of websites that aim to bring tax and financial strategies once associated with the ultra-wealthy to a much wider consumer audience is offering advice from named ‘experts’ whose identities TaxWatch has been unable to verify. A TaxWatch...
by Mike Lewis | Aug 13, 2026
Tackling the tax gap is back in vogue. (If it ever went out of style). Boosting tax revenues without raising taxes is appealing to any government, but especially to one that has big new plans but has inherited strict fiscal rules. Day 3 of the Burnham administration...
by Jack McConnel | Jul 10, 2026
Yesterday HMRC released its 2026 Report & Accounts. This is the annual occasion when it’s the tax authority’s turn to show its financial sums. There’s much to dig into, but here we take a look at how HMRC’s tax compliance function is doing....
by Mike Lewis | May 19, 2026
Yesterday afternoon (18 May), MPs quizzed senior officials from the UK’s tax authority about how they are making the biggest multinational companies pay their due taxes. They raised TaxWatch’s research multiple times, and HMRC provided some important new facts – but...
by Mike Lewis | May 3, 2026
A UK company which forms part of one of the world’s largest oil trading multinationals is paying 80 percent of its profits to another part of the multinational in the low-tax Swiss canton of Zug — shrinking its taxable profits in the UK. Our new...