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NEWS RELEASE: One in ten of the UK’s highest earners pay the full headline tax rate of 47% whilst a quarter pay less than half of that.
Some of the highest earners pay effective tax rates far lower than the headline rates of Income Tax and National Insurance, driven by structural factors in the tax system such as lower rates of Capital Gains Tax (CGT), finds a new report. Using de-identified...
NEWS RELEASE: ‘Childcare cliff-edge’ at £100k will lead to eleven-fold rise in number of parents holding down incomes by the end of this parliament
A new report by researchers at the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax) provides the first independent assessment based on real-world data of the impact of the £100,000 cut-off for entitlement to free childcare.
CenTax analysis: thin foundations of HMRC’s 2026 tax gap publication
CenTax has today published a new blog by Professor Arun Advani (Warwick) and Professor Andy Summers (LSE) responding to HMRC’s 2026 Measuring Tax Gaps publication
Closing the Tax Gap: conference report published
The Closing the Tax Gap conference report is now available on our dedicated conference page. Drawing on notes taken by the CenTax team across both days, it runs through each plenary panel, the keynote addresses, and each of the twelve breakout sessions.
Closing the Tax Gap – first reflections
Last week CenTax held our inaugural residential conference, “Closing the Tax Gap,” at the University of Warwick.
Around 100 delegates joined us across the two days, drawn from HMRC and HM Treasury, major firms and independent advisers, professional bodies, UK and international academics, and think tanks. Our aim was to broaden the debate on tax compliance in the UK by combining policy, administrative, technical, legal and academic perspectives that do not often share a room.
Closing the Tax Gap conference – ticket deadline extended to Monday 6 April
The ticket sales deadline for Closing the Tax Gap, our first residential conference, has been extended. Sales will now be open until Monday 6th April (Easter Monday).
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