by Claire Aston | Oct 30, 2024
Photo credit: HM Treasury The hype is over at last, but the package of Budget measures is quite a mixed bag! TaxWatch welcomes the targeting of reliefs for inheritance tax and phasing out of business asset disposal relief for CGT, as these were both poorly targeted...
by Claire Aston | Oct 24, 2024
£300 million tax lost to non compliance by UK resident individuals on offshore accounts in 2018-19 This figure appears to be a gross underestimate, definitely excluding any assets held through companies, and the treatment of assets within trusts isn’t clear...
by Claire Aston | Sep 27, 2024
Yesterday HMRC published its annual statistics on the tax relief for Research & Development (R&D) in the 2022-23 tax year. The main findings were: A fall in the number of claims made, down 21% to 65,690. Most of the fall was concentrated in the SME scheme,...
by Simon Watkins | Sep 9, 2024
Sweet Deception: £4.4bn tax evasion leaves a sour taste for HMRC Tax evasion growing amongst small businesses, but HMRC lacks an effective strategic response Estimated £4.4billion lost to tax evasion by small businesses, although HMRC admit this could be erroneous....
by Claire Aston | Sep 3, 2024
£2.2bn of tax relief paid to creative industry firms, half claimed by High End television productions in 2022-23. Claims up from £1.9bn the year before. Huge growth in High End television claim amounts, which have more than doubled in 3 years. Claims exceeding £2m per...
