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Tax avoidance

July 2024

  • Piggybank on plastic island, symbolic picture for tax haven

    The Guardian view on UN tax talks: Labour must repudiate the stance of the last government

    Editorial: Britain has a historic responsibility to back global attempts to properly regulate the world of offshore financial centres
  • Close-up pic of her indoors and wearing green jacket

    Rachel Reeves urged to crack down on wealthy tax avoiders

    Calls follow Guardian undercover investigation as chancellor poised to reveal £20bn hole in UK finances
  • UnderCover

    Super-rich being advised how to avoid Labour tax clampdown, undercover investigation suggests

    Revealed: Wealthy being pitched offshore products said to shelter fortunes from inheritance tax and capital gains tax

June 2024

  • Rachel Reeves portrait

    Pressure on Labour and Conservatives as tax gap hits £40bn

    Shortfall between tax owed and tax paid puts issue of avoidance in election spotlight
  • A HMRC letterhead with various coins and paper currency on to of it

    HMRC has failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in five years

    Landmark powers to impose huge fines to tackle tax evasion and avoidance are ‘pointless’, figures show
  • Members of the Russian youth organisation Yunarmia (Young Army) celebrate the day of saints Cyril and Methodius, founders of the Cyrillic alphabet, in Moscow’s Red Square on 24 May 2024.

    Brief letters
    Vladimir Putin and Russia’s screwed generation

    Brief letters: Generation P | Photobombing in the Musée d’Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks

May 2024

  • Elderly woman shopping for food in a supermarket

    Reality check
    Reality check: can Treasury afford pledge to raise tax-free pension allowance?

    We look at whether the Conservative pledge for a ‘triple lock plus’ can really be paid for by cracking down on tax avoidance
  • Pile of polymer £5 and £10 notes

    Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies

    Deputy foreign secretary urges Cayman and British Virgin Islands to implement UK law requiring public registers of funds
  • Larry Elliott

    Why are billionaires scared of Brazil’s plan to hit them with a global tax? Because it makes perfect sense

    Larry Elliott
    As the fortunes of the super-rich soar, a proposed annual levy of 2% could offer a corrective – and they will fight it tooth and nail, says the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott

April 2024

  • A family amid the corrugated iron shanty house slums of Nairobi

    World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

  • Abigail Disney

    World leaders have a chance to raise taxes for rich people like me. I’m begging them to take it

    Abigail Disney
  • Luxury cars in Mayfair

    ‘Petrified’ non-doms poised to flee UK over Labour’s tax plans, say experts

  • Sir Kier Starmer and Dame Margaret Hodge on 15 February 2023.

    The Guardian view on Labour and the tax gap: a £5bn question for a coterie of insiders

  • Labour creates tax panel to help it clamp down on avoiders

  • The Tories let tax dodgers go unchecked. Labour won’t put up with it

    Margaret Hodge
  • How realistic is Labour’s aspiration to cut tax gap by £5bn?

  • Closing the UK’s tax gap is ‘not rocket science’, says Rachel Reeves

  • Labour plans £5bn crackdown on tax avoiders to close non-dom spending gap

February 2024

  • Luxury red sports car

    ‘A historic step’: G20 discusses plans for global minimum tax on billionaires

  • Larger white man with long brown hair, light beard, and suit hold microphone in front of blue, cloud Salesforce logo on white wall behind him.

    Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report

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