by Alex Dunnagan | Dec 28, 2022
TaxWatch Acting Director Alex Dunnagan gave evidence to the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) on Monday 19th December highlighting the abuse of tax reliefs. Written evidence In November we submitted written evidence to the TSC for their inquiry on tax reliefs, focussing...
by George Turner | Feb 14, 2022
HMRC’s record on tax fraud has been questioned by two select committees and in several parliamentary debates in recent weeks The last select committee inquiry on Tax Fraud was in 2015 Recent weeks have seen HMRC being put under intense scrutiny on their record on...
by George Turner | Apr 29, 2021
In response to critics that have questioned why HMRC has not done more to bring criminal prosecutions against the enablers and promoters of tax avoidance schemes, the government’s standard response has been to state that “there is no criminal offence of...
by Alex Dunnagan | Sep 24, 2020
Netflix has agreed to respond to TaxWatch’s investigation into the company’s tax affairs after a request from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee. Our report revealed that the TV giant had streamed up to $430m of profits into offshore tax havens in...
by Alex Dunnagan | Mar 20, 2020
A debate was held in the House of Commons yesterday on the Government Response to the Sir Amyas Morse Review of the Loan Charge. Ahead of this we published an explainer on what disguised remuneration is here, and a more detailed briefing here. David Davis, Ruth...
