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Where are the billions in missing tax?
It’s been a busy week for tax campaigners. It was reported that the Conservative party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, has paid a £1 million penalty to…
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Zahawi’s position is untenable – he has to go
News that the Prime Minister has ordered an ethics investigation into the tax affairs of ex Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, is welcome, but will come too…
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Wealth of the super rich balloons by £21 trillion
The super rich just keep getting richer. And calls for wealth taxes are growing louder. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, the world’s richest…
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It’s a new year, but spare a thought for high paid CEOs
It’s been a great start to the year for the UK’s top earners. Our friends at the High Pay Centre calculated that FTSE 100 bosses…
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Tax the super rich to pay nurses properly
The UK is entering a period of major disruption. Nurses are striking for fair pay for the first time ever this week . Paramedics will…
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What did we achieve in 2022?
It’s been an important year for tax justice in the UK. We’ve achieved some big campaigning wins with the help of our supporters. Our research,…
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Amazon must pay their taxes – and their workers
Amazon paid no corporation tax in the UK in 2021 . At the same time its employees’ real wages are dropping despite record revenues and…
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The chancellor’s return to austerity is a political choice
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has just delivered his long anticipated autumn statement. This was his chance to use higher taxes on the super-rich to invest…
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Tax the super rich to protect our NHS
We’ve been busy this week. Yesterday we launched research showing how £37 billion a year could be raised through five simple changes to the tax…
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Five policies that could raise up to £37 billion in tax
There is a newer version of this story. We updated our research in March 2023. Read: Six wealth tax policies that could raise £50 billion.…
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Tax extreme wealth to stop the cost of living crisis
The prime minister Liz Truss has resigned. However the chancellor Jeremy Hunt remains in post. Hunt’s ‘Halloween budget’, which is expected to contain public spending…
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Hunt should tax wealth to bring an end to this economic chaos
A string of u-turns by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today should be the death knell for the mantra of tax cuts for big business and the…
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The wealthy and corporations need to pay more tax
£60 billion would be cut from things like councils, benefits and social care if the government went ahead with a second round of austerity. Liz…
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The Tories’ tax cut plans are in disarray
Did you hear that? It was the sound of a huge – and wholly necessary – government u-turn on their plans to cut taxes for…
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Westminster launches ‘war on dirty money’ in win for our campaign
Leader of Westminster Council, Adam Hug (middle), with Mary Patel (left) Fair Tax Networks Manager at The Fair Tax Foundation and Sara Hall (right) Head…
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A cost of living budget, for bankers
The Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng MP, has today delivered an inequality budget – with sops to big business and the wealthy at a time when ordinary…
A cost of living budget, for bankers