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There are widespread reports that the Budget will increase tax on banks. This follows claims from the TUC that banks are under-taxed, and claims from UK Finance that they’re overtaxed. We’ve compared ...

I’m being sued for $795m in a US federal court in Wyoming, under a law designed to take down the Mafia. The man suing me is a fugitive British fraudster called Iain Clifford Stamp, who says I caused ...

We investigate the real-world impact of the UK tax and legal system, expose avoidance and abuse, and propose practical reforms. I’m being sued for $795m in a US federal court in Wyoming, under a law ...

Zack Polanski’s boat: if his “home”, he failed to pay council tax. If only there “occasionally”, he broke electoral law. Zack Polanski and his partner lived on a boat for three years, and described it ...

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The stupidest tax: complicated, costs businesses £m, and raises zero money. Let’s abolish stamp duty. Stamp duty was one of the triggers for the American Revolution. Somehow, 250 years later, we still ...

Today’s episode ⚠️ of Untaxing is about Jaffa cakes and VAT. With the benefit of hindsight, that’s a very small VAT issue on a day when VAT has become a very large geopolitical issue. Donald Trump is ...

Tax Policy Associates today reveals that Premier League football clubs are avoiding tax on an industrial scale, by artificially structuring their payments to football agents. We estimate it cost £250m ...

Keir Starmer announced £15 billion of additional defence spending – £4.7bn of that is currently unfunded. That leaves Andy Burnham, expected to become Prime Minister, with a problem. Where is he going ...

This is the first part of a series on the tax mess that the UK is in… and what we can do about it. Comparing like-for-like across different countries is not straightforward – wage structures and tax ...