by Simon Watkins | Feb 10, 2025
A National Audit Office report released today focuses on the administrative cost of the tax system. The report finds that HMRC’s costs of administering the tax system increased by 15% (£563 million) between 2019-20 and 2023-24. The report focuses on several...
by Alex Dunnagan | Mar 14, 2023
R&D reliefs predicted to cost over £9bn by 2026-27 – by far the largest corporation tax relief Fraud and error in schemes total over £1.1bn in last three years R&D ‘claims farms’ continue to hard sell opportunities to claim refunds on expenditure that often...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 27, 2022
27th October 2022 How ‘legal avoidance’ means getting away with tax fraud, and what needs to be done about it A joint policy paper by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax and TaxWatch Introduction Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 27, 2022
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax and TaxWatch have published a joint report outlining how supposedly ‘legal’ tax avoidance could actually be prosecuted as tax fraud. The report explains that there exists a serious enforcement...
by Alex Dunnagan | Apr 29, 2021
On Monday 19 April MPs met to scrutinise the Finance (No. 2) Bill in a committee of the whole house. In the debate, TaxWatch’s research into “super-deductions” featured prominently, as MPs sought to amend the legislation to ensure some companies were excluded from the...
