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’...
by Mike Lewis | May 14, 2025
The government wants to step up the fight against enablers of tax abuse (again). New powers and better information can help. But HMRC is barely using some of the powers and penalties it already has. *** Laws that aren’t enforced are simply polite recommendations....
by Claire Aston | Oct 24, 2024
£300 million tax lost to non compliance by UK resident individuals on offshore accounts in 2018-19 This figure appears to be a gross underestimate, definitely excluding any assets held through companies, and the treatment of assets within trusts isn’t clear...
by Claire Aston | May 15, 2024
Multiple delays to the publication of the offshore tax gap statistics, now a full year late TaxWatch had to use FOI powers to discover that the new date for this work is now June 2024 (gov.uk still shows Autumn 2023) Data on which this will be based is from CRS...
by George Turner | Dec 7, 2021
New analysis shows that the number of users of disguised remuneration schemes has increased dramatically despite government attempts to legislate against the schemes Criminal investigations against promoters remain a rarity, with no successful prosecutions being...
