Private justice, public loss

Private justice, public loss

by | 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...
Naming and shaming isn’t working

Naming and shaming isn’t working

by | Apr 8, 2026

There are different reasons for not paying due tax: from genuine mistakes to criminal fraud. At the more serious end of the scale is evading tax liabilities on purpose. Deliberately providing HMRC with inaccurate or false information. Deliberately failing to tell them...
Big corporates: tax heroes or tax sinners?

Big corporates: tax heroes or tax sinners?

by | Feb 27, 2026

Today the National Audit Office (NAO) publishes its first assessment in over a decade of how effectively HMRC is chasing the missing tax revenues of Britain’s biggest companies. TaxWatch was pleased to give evidence to the NAO’s enquiry, whose headline...
Are small businesses tax dodgers or tax victims?

Are small businesses tax dodgers or tax victims?

by | Feb 12, 2026

Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee argues in its latest report, released yesterday, that tax compliance is crushing small businesses. Aside from concerns about tax levels and thresholds (about which there is much more to say, especially regarding VAT and...