A forensic look at who pays tax, who doesn’t, and why
How to get wealthy taxpayers to pay half a billion of their due taxes
Snuck out alongside the Autumn Budget was HMRC’s ‘Wealthy Plan’, a roadmap for ensuring wealthy taxpayers are paying their taxes. It’s been under development over the summer, after MPs claimed last year that HMRC didn’t have a grip on the scale of wealthy non-compliance. We take a look at how it stacks up in three key areas.
Is the Chancellor working from the wrong spreadsheet?
HMRC has quietly withdrawn a key set of statistics that is reportedly driving Budget decisions on how to tax wealth
Five things we’d like to see in the Budget
Five tax administration changes the Chancellor could announce that would help bring down the £60bn tax gap; make sure everyone pays their due taxes; and ensure that when the tax system says they don’t have to, it’s because they’re doing something we want them to do.
How many times can you move to Monaco?
Dozens of news reports are claiming that property billionaire David Reuben, number two on the UK’s Rich List, moved from London to Monaco “this summer”, pushed out by the government’s tax changes and costing the economy millions. But according to official company records and a signed 2024 court declaration obtained by TaxWatch, he’s actually been living offshore since around 2014.