by Chris White | Dec 2, 2025
Last week’s Budget underscored the government’s struggles to balance the books without raising taxes or cutting services. Yet one source of lost revenue – offshore tax evasion – remains persistently under-policed and under-discussed. It appeared...
by Mike Lewis | Nov 26, 2025
Budget’s third-largest tax pledge relies on UK tax authority that is suffering from recruitment delays and unfinished IT systems Just 26 of 6,700 extra compliance/debt staff promised by Chancellor are so far in post Decision to retain tax on digital...
by Mike Lewis | Nov 19, 2025
What is Rachel Reeves’ second-biggest revenue-raising policy so far? As well as being a question for the most niche pub quiz ever, It’s something that would be near-impossible to guess from the public debate in the run up to this year’s Autumn...
by Mike Lewis | Nov 19, 2025
Full report HMRC is under pressure. Generational demands on key areas of public spending from defence to social care to special educational needs; a Treasury adhering to strict fiscal rules on borrowing; and a government struggling to minimize breaches of its...
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...
