by George Turner | Jun 6, 2020
On 04 June the Bank of England published the names of 53 companies that had outstanding loans under the UK government’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility. The list contains a number of companies that have had links to tax havens, or have seen controversy regarding...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 1, 2020
“The profiteering that cannot be got at by the restraints of conscience and love of country can be got at by taxation.” – US President Woodrow Wilson, 1918.1 World leaders are using wartime rhetoric in describing the current crisis. Emmanuel Macron has declared...
by George Turner | Feb 10, 2020
The top five tech companies operating in the UK managed to generate profits estimated at £8.1bn from UK customers in 2018, a new analysis by TaxWatch shows. However, due to these companies implementing complex financial structures to take these profits offshore, these...
by George Turner | Jan 28, 2020
The Sunday Times published their second annual tax list over the weekend. The list, which uses publicly available data to showcase the “individuals and families who contribute most to the public purse” is pitched as a celebration of the contribution that the wealthy...
by Alex Dunnagan | Nov 20, 2019
20th November 2019 Global Video Games Giants: Playing the system or paying their fair share? A report from The Guardian, Revealed: global video games giants avoiding millions in UK tax, has shown that four large companies have claimed close to half of all Video Games...
