Manchester City’s sham consultancy raises questions about £12m in unpaid UK tax. We examine the evidence - and the case for a ...

Nick Candy sold Providence House in Chelsea this May for a reported £265m to Suneil Setiya, a hedge fund manager. It’s the most expensive house ever sold in Britain. The way the house was sold avoided ...

Fewer than 5% of estates currently pay inheritance tax. 1 But that statistic counts the dead; if we want to understand why inheritance tax is so unpopular, we should count the living instead. We’ve ...

We’ve found the first hard evidence that the mansion tax is impacting the property market – house sale prices are bunching just below the £2m mansion tax threshold. Since the tax was announced, the ...

In his first major speech as Shadow Chancellor, Andrew Griffith said that the UK corporate tax return has 985 boxes. I used the same number in an article I wrote earlier in the year for the Financial ...

The Post Office told wrongly-accused postmasters their compensation offers were secret, and couldn’t be shown to anyone but a lawyer. That wasn’t true. They could have shown the offers to friends, ...

We’re getting into Budget lobbying season. The latest is from Universities UK, who want a tax cut for employers – a new National Insurance exemption for graduates and others under 25. But their only ...