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There are widespread reports that the Budget will increase tax on banks. This follows claims from the TUC that banks are under-taxed, and claims from UK Finance that they’re overtaxed. We’ve compared ...

Zack Polanski’s boat: if his “home”, he failed to pay council tax. If only there “occasionally”, he broke electoral law. Zack Polanski and his partner lived on a boat for three years, and described it ...

We investigate the real-world impact of the UK tax and legal system, expose avoidance and abuse, and propose practical reforms. I’m being sued for $795m in a US federal court in Wyoming, under a law ...

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Tax Policy Associates today reveals that Premier League football clubs are avoiding tax on an industrial scale, by artificially structuring their payments to football agents. We estimate it cost £250m ...

Today’s episode ⚠️ of Untaxing is about Jaffa cakes and VAT. With the benefit of hindsight, that’s a very small VAT issue on a day when VAT has become a very large geopolitical issue. Donald Trump is ...

Manchester City’s rule-breaking may go beyond football. The independent Commission found that the club inflated its income, concealed expenses and paid a key individual through a sham consultancy.

Keir Starmer announced £15 billion of additional defence spending – £4.7bn of that is currently unfunded. That leaves Andy Burnham, expected to become Prime Minister, with a problem. Where is he going ...

British politics has spent a generation avoiding the same uncomfortable question: what if the government people want costs more than most voters are willing to pay? The answer, from Labour and the ...

Council tax on ‘expensive homes’ – but most of the money comes from the not-so-rich The FT has reported that Rachel Reeves is planning a “Budget tax raid on the owners of expensive homes”, expected to ...