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...
by Mike Lewis | 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...
by Mike Lewis | 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...
by Jack McConnel | Dec 18, 2025
As the year turns, 2026 will see the start of the biggest change in a generation for how nearly three million people will do their taxes: the catchily-titled Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA). From April 2026, digital record-keeping and...
