Fact checks focussed on tax and the UK economy
Economy, Business & Finance
A post shared thousands of times on social media makes a number of inaccurate claims about the UK’s public finances. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A post circulating on Facebook features several inaccurate figures about the cost of “asylum seeker benefits”, benefit fraud and error and tax avoidance. Read
Politics
HMRC says this claim, which has been shared on various social media platforms, is untrue. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The list includes taxes that are more than a century old and other taxes that don’t exist in the UK. Read
Politics
Posts circulating on social media claim the new system will track UK residents who leave the country more than three times within a 12 month period. But no such system exists. Read
Politics
The Treasury has said claims on social media that the Chancellor is set to introduce a window tax on privately owned homes are “misinformation”. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The BBC has removed an inaccurate claim made on its Strong Message Here podcast after Full Fact got in touch. Read
The post makes incorrect claims, including that tax avoidance and evasion cost the UK 100 times more than benefit fraud. Read
The Facebook post makes a number of misleading claims about taxes in the UK, and has been shared over 132,000 times. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Posts shared on social media have wrongly claimed that new tax thresholds will mean you have to pay income tax at a rate of 40% on earnings above £37,000. Read
