by Claire Aston | Nov 10, 2023
The extremely high level of tax relief available to the UK’s oil and gas companies compared to all other businesses has the potential to distort private sector investment, TaxWatch believes. We also question whether this was the policy intention when the Energy...
by Claire Aston | Oct 25, 2023
Our new report “State of Tax Administration 2023” looks at data from HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, along with Freedom of Information requests and other publicly available data to get a feel for the current state of administration of the UK tax...
by Claire Aston | Oct 16, 2023
• £60.5bn estimated UK revenues • £14.8bn estimated UK profits • £2.8bn estimated corporation tax @ 19% • £753m estimated UK corporation tax and digital services tax paid • £2.0bn estimated UK tax avoided In today’s new report, we analyse seven large US-based...
by Claire Aston | Oct 11, 2023
The Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced plans to appoint a Covid corruption commissioner at the Labour Party Conference this week. The speech was low on detail, except for reference to a figure of £7.2bn of fraud against the taxpayer related to Covid...
by Claire Aston | Jul 20, 2023
£1.13bn – revised estimate of error and fraud in 2020-21 (previously £338m) 24.4% – revised rate of error and fraud in SME scheme (previously 5.5%) £1.05bn – estimated error and fraud in 2022-23 HMRC have finally published initial data from their random enquiry...
