danneidle

danneidle, 2 months ago to random

"I've been accused of being a misogynist Tory shill and a Labour puppet."

Piece by me in the New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2024/04/i-looked-into-angela-rayners-tax-affairs-heres-what-i-found

danneidle, 3 months ago to random

How I accidentally blundered into an invisible campaign to censor the internet: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/02/17/the-invisible-campaign-to-censor-the-internet/

danneidle, 4 months ago to random

So it turns out Mogul Press fraudulently abused DMCA takedown notices to remove our criticism of their deceptive business practices https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/27/mogul_fraud/

danneidle, 4 months ago to random

Labour seems set to introduce VAT on private school fees. We thought it would be helpful to set out the ways some private schools might try to avoid VAT, and our assessment of their prospects of success. We've identified some approaches which we've categorised as "good" (likely to succeed), "bad" (likely to fail) and "ugly" (highly inadvisable and maybe even criminal).

Our article is here: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/26/school_fee_vat_avoidance/

danneidle, 4 months ago to random

Our detailed report is now out, with evidence that we believe shows Douglas Barrowman's businesses committed fraud. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/18/barrowman_fraud/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

Are you bored? Would you like to play with an interactive map showing all the 38,590 overseas entities holding English/Welsh real estate? With clickable thingies that let you identify where someone has unlawfully hidden their ownership...

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/16/overseas/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

Just had an extraordinarily weird response from Michelle Mone to our reporting on her and her husband’s dubious business dealings:

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danneidle, 5 months ago to random

We previously reported that Douglas Barrowman's companies had unlawfully hidden their ownership of PPE Medpro and the companies holding Barrowman's Belgravia house. We can now identify 25 additional companies where Barrowman's group has unlawfully failed to disclose the ownership, abetted by what appears to be a rogue company verification agent.

(This isn’t the big Douglas Barrowman story we’ve mentioned - that’s coming soon. Think of this as a taster...)

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/14/25more/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

On BBC Radio 4 Today at 7.30am to talk about the Post Office's £100m tax whoopsie. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/12/934m/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

We've a new report: the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments to the postmasters it persecuted. That's outrageous. It's also unlawful - so the Post Office now faces an unexpected £100m tax bill. It may be insolvent. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/12/934m/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

On BBC Radio 4 Today in ten minutes talking about the Post Office compensation scandal, and why one postmaster received £15.75. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/11/hss_scandal/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

Apologies for the delay on our Barrowman story. We thought this story would be recapping the fairly well known Barrowman contractor loan tax avoidance scheme. However we've actually found something much more serious, and evidence that we think should lead to a prosecution. More soon.

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

Last year, the Times and then The Daily Mirror reported that Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone owned (and sometimes lived in) a house in Belgravia which was held by an offshore trust.

Which means she was a beneficiary (or the trustees acted in breach of trust).

Guess whether Mone disclosed her interest in the trust in the House of Lords register of members' interests? https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/29/more_mone/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

More Post Office scandal: its incompetence leaves 1,100 postmasters with a £10k tax bill

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/20/post_office_incompetence/

danneidle, 5 months ago to random

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone own a house in Belgravia through a BVI company. That company should show Barrowman and/or Mone as the beneficial owner. It doesn't. That's a breach of company law - and potentially a criminal offence.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/19/oops_i_did_it_again/

danneidle, 6 months ago to random

Thrilled to have won "investigation of the year" in the British Journalism Awards for our Zahawi investigation.

danneidle, 6 months ago to random

A particularly dumb tax idea was promoted on LinkedIn earlier today - so bad it amounted to tax fraud. And then someone sent me another.

That got me thinking: who currently protects consumers from these schemes?

I'm pretty sure the answer is: nobody. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/12/noprotection/

danneidle, 6 months ago to random

What happened to Less Tax for Landlords and Property118? Looks very likely they're both under HMRC investigation. A short summary here, and advice for affected clients: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/28/what_happened/

danneidle, 6 months ago to random

There's speculation the Autumn Statement might announce a stamp duty/SDLT "holiday". What does the evidence say about previous "holidays"?

Bad things.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/22/holidays/

danneidle, 7 months ago to random

Some personal reflections on Zahawi, Barrowman and Mone. Why libel law rewards liars, and how we could change it.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/07/libel/

danneidle, 7 months ago to random

I’ve been kindly invited to give the ICAEW Hardman Lecture on 22 November: The worst features of the UK tax system and what we can do about them

Tickets available here: https://events.icaew.com/pd/27646/tax-faculty-hardman-lecture-2023-the-worst-fe?st_t=364&st_ti=3145&returncom=productlist&source=search

danneidle, 8 months ago to random

People conspiring to pervert the course of justice, and jail and ruin the innocent, aren’t usually stupid enough to put it in writing.

The Post Office did:

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danneidle, 8 months ago to random

I wrote back in February that raising corporation tax to 25% could take the effective rate of tax to the highest it’s ever been in the UK.

danneidle, 8 months ago to random

The disgrace of a tax system that taxes people on modest incomes at a marginal rate of over 70%, and the failure of our politicians to notice or care: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/britains-tax-system-is-a-mess/