TAXWATCH

Registered charity 1189585 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TAX WATCH, TAX WATCH UK

TaxWatch is a UK charity dedicated to compliance and sound administration of the law in the field of taxation. We are an investigative think tank which conducts forensic research and analysis on tax avoidance, tax policy, and tax law, publishing our research to improve public understanding of tax issues.Through our work we seek to encourage high standards of tax conduct and civic responsibility.

Objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:2.1.1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO TAX LAW AND THE OPERATION OF THE TAX SYSTEM;2.1.2. TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW, IN PARTICULAR THE LAW OF TAXATION;2.1.3. TO PROMOTE COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW, IN PARTICULAR THE LAW OF TAXATION; AND2.1.4. TO PROMOTE CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP BY PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING HIGH STANDARDS OF BUSINESS CONDUCT, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW OF TAXATION.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £84,912 exceed the charity's stated policy target of three months of core operational costs. The trustees report a healthy unrestricted funding position, noting that the balance covers over six months of operating costs at year-end.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11609849

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ARENDAR, Ana Caistor — director, appointed 20/05/2019on trustee list
• HERRERA, Jennifer Elaine — director, appointed 20/05/2019on trustee list
• BROOKS, Richard Philip — director, appointed 24/10/2018on trustee list
• MORRISON, Damien Desmond — director, appointed 23/10/2018on trustee list
• RICHER, Julian — director, appointed 08/10/2018on trustee list
• MORRISON, Damien — secretary, appointed 23/10/2018

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JULIAN RICHERchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• Ana Caistor Arendar
• Damien Morrison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Elaine Herrera · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Brooks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• JULIAN RICHER — trustee here and at PERSULA FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STOPWATCH.

• STOPWATCH income £168k
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF TAXATION income £12.1m
• HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON income £98k
• NATUREWATCH FOUNDATION income £389k
• POLICY EXCHANGE LIMITED income £3.9m
• HEALTHWATCH WAKEFIELD income £494k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.