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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 ...

I’m being sued for $795m in a US federal court in Wyoming, under a law designed to take down the Mafia. The man suing me is a fugitive British fraudster called Iain Clifford Stamp, who says I caused ...

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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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 ...

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.

For the third Budget in a row, everyone’s talking about capital gains tax. The Chancellor, John Healey, says he won’t give “any answers or signals that will fuel Budget speculation”, but in the same ...

This is the first part of a series on the tax mess that the UK is in… and what we can do about it. Comparing like-for-like across different countries is not straightforward – wage structures and tax ...

We’ve modelled the impact of the English “mansion tax“ 1 by analysing land registry data on every property transaction since 1995. This lets us estimate how much each postcode and Parliamentary ...