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 6, 2025
Now that the Ethics Adviser’s report is in on the Rt Hon Angela Rayner’s tax error, one thing is clear: tax advice is complicated. Because the tax system is complicated, and life is complicated. Although there’s no suggestion that the firms in this case...
by Mike Lewis | Aug 29, 2025
The UK is in a fiscal tight spot. The Chancellor has promised to raise an additional £7.5 billion over the next four years by boosting HMRC compliance efforts. The Autumn Budget is likely to see more measures intended to make this number go up: perhaps extra...
by Chris White | Jul 18, 2025
New powers against ‘enablers’ – those who design and enable aggressive tax avoidance and evasion – are back on the table once again. But new figures show that existing powers are still not being used. A report published by the Public Accounts Committee...
by Chris White | Jul 4, 2025
After years of attempts at reform, offshore havens still offer secrecy for those determined to hide money and evade tax. In a week when five of the UK’s Overseas Territories have ignored yet another deadline for functioning ‘beneficial ownership’...
