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 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 Alex Dunnagan | Dec 29, 2021
UK Government has announced an extra £510m boost to DWP to fight benefits fraud following the pandemic. This is in addition to £103m already announced in the spending review HMRC spending £155m to tackle covid related fraud TaxWatch estimates the increase in benefits...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jan 26, 2021
The news that the latest James Bond Film, No Time to Die, has been delayed for the third time1 comes soon after the companies responsible for producing the film published their latest set of accounts. These reveal that in 2020 the company behind the latest James Bond...
by Alex Dunnagan | Dec 2, 2020
Tesco has announced that it is repaying the £585m worth of business rates relief that it received from the government as support during the pandemic, saying that it is “the right thing to do”.1 Back in March when flour, tinned goods and toilet paper were hard to find,...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jun 16, 2020
Monitoring the bailout 16 June 2020 – Alex Dunnagan In response to the Coronavirus crisis, the government has made a huge and unprecedented intervention into the economy, providing vast amounts of assistance to the business sector. The comprehensive nature of...
