by Mike Lewis | Feb 12, 2026
Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee argues in its latest report, released yesterday, that tax compliance is crushing small businesses. Aside from concerns about tax levels and thresholds (about which there is much more to say, especially regarding VAT and...
by Mike Lewis | Jan 14, 2026
Yesterday (13 January) Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee grilled HMRC’s chief and senior staff about their efforts to tackle tax avoidance, evasion and debt. MPs referenced TaxWatch research and investigations in questions about corporate tax reliefs,...
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 Claire Aston | Sep 27, 2024
Yesterday HMRC published its annual statistics on the tax relief for Research & Development (R&D) in the 2022-23 tax year. The main findings were: A fall in the number of claims made, down 21% to 65,690. Most of the fall was concentrated in the SME scheme,...
by Claire Aston | Sep 3, 2024
£2.2bn of tax relief paid to creative industry firms, half claimed by High End television productions in 2022-23. Claims up from £1.9bn the year before. Huge growth in High End television claim amounts, which have more than doubled in 3 years. Claims exceeding £2m per...
