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Windsor leads the UK for the highest concentration of people admitting tax avoidance, according to research by UHY Hacker Young.
In Windsor there were 23 disclosures to HMRC of unpaid tax per 100,000 population last year, the highest number of disclosures per 100,000 population in all 279 areas of the country. The UK average is seven disclosures per 100,000 people.
Affluent towns in the Home Counties, known as the ‘stockbroker belt’, dominate the Top 20 areas with the most tax disclosures. St Albans, with 20 disclosures, is second, followed by Guildford (17) third and Tunbridge Wells (15) in seventh. London is fourth with 17 per 100,000 people, totalling 1454 disclosures.
HMRC has targeted contractors working in the oil and gas sector in Aberdeen, which is ranked fifth on the list, and IT contractors in Reading, which ranked eighth.
