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 ...

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.

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 ...

Our model finds one in five pensioner households could face inheritance tax from April 2027. Explore the constituency map and its potential electoral impact.

Dan’s claim that it has 985 boxes is wrong. We counted 905 - and found that the number has more than doubled since 2015.

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 wrote in 2023 about a complex landlord tax avoidance scheme sold by an unregulated firm called Property118. HMRC subsequently opened enquiries into Property118’s clients, and determined that the ...

The November 2025 Budget introduced a “mansion tax” – formally, the “high value council tax surcharge” – an annual charge on homes worth £2m or more. The Mail on Sunday reported in July 2026 that Andy ...

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 ...

It’s the UK’s biggest and least discussed tax problem. There’s between £30bn and £48bn missing from each year’s small business tax bills. It’s been getting worse – and nobody knows why. There’s no ...

The Royal Household has, for the first time, disclosed how much voluntary “tax” the King pays: £12.9m for 2024/25, £11.7m for 2023/24, and a little over £5.4m for the six months of 2022/23 in which he ...