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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 ...

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 ...

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The stupidest tax: complicated, costs businesses £m, and raises zero money. Let’s abolish stamp duty. Stamp duty was one of the triggers for the American Revolution. Somehow, 250 years later, we still ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK’s 0.5% tax on share transactions is the highest of any major economy. No other country with a major stock exchange has a comparable tax. Stamp duty holds back the FTSE and increases the cost of ...

The Green Party has published its manifesto ⚠️. The Green Party propose raising taxes by £115bn in 2026/27 and £172bn in 2029/30 – about 4.5% of GDP. There is very little detail presented and the ...

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 ...