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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

New data suggests Scotland’s 48p tax rate may be losing money People often talk about the Laffer curve: the idea that if you raise a tax beyond a certain point, you may in fact reduce revenues. Laffer ...

The Scottish Budget – four thoughts on a tiny tax cut The Scottish Budget was on 13 January 2026. The flagship policy is being widely reported as a cut in income tax for low earners, by increasing ...