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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UK tax as a percentage of GDP is on course to be the highest since 1945. Over the next four years it will increase further. Government spending won’t increase as a percent of GDP over this period; ...

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 ...

FOIA requests made by Tax Policy Associates reveal that £570bn is held in tax haven bank accounts by UK taxpayers, but HMRC has made no attempt to estimate how much of this is undeclared in UK tax ...

The two biggest tax-cutting Conservative Chancellors in British history both increased capital gains tax – and for good reasons. Jeremy Hunt should follow them, and raise £8bn. Here’s the current ...