Tice 's £100k tax scandal calls Jenrick to the defence

On Sunday 12 April, the Times reported on a tax scandal involving Richard Tice and a disputed £92k. Now, a week later, the Times are reporting on an entirely different tax scandal involving Tice:

To clarify this £100k is wholly different to £92k in unpaid tax we revealed last week and £600k we examined last month.

It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in four shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.

Their parent then donated to Reform. https://t.co/P8QGWhHuZi

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) April 19, 2026

Tice could have gone on the Sunday interview shows to defend himself against these accusations. Instead, Reform sent ex-Tory Robert Jenrick to do the deputy leader’s dirty work:

#bbclaurak: The Times is reporting that Richard Tice(Reform MP) failed to pay almost £100k in corporation tax… shouldn't he resign?

Robert Jenrick(Reform MP): "He's a very successful businessman… so there is no story… he's paid the tax.." 🤔 pic.twitter.com/9JNavwiwDQ

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) April 19, 2026

The no tax man

As reported by the Times:

Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

The deputy leader of Nigel Farage’s party ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

The entities existed purely to receive dividends from Tice’s property investment firm and passed on the money — including the cash that tax specialists say is owed to HMRC — to their parent company.

The Times noted that these entities transferred a suspiciously similar amount of money somewhere else:

Tisun Investments Ltd in turn transferred £1,113,000 to Reform between March 16, 2020, the date of the first dividend, and May 10, 2022, the date of the last. The payments, some gifts, others loans, made Tice one of the biggest donors in British politics at the time.

It is the first time his tax affairs can be directly linked to the finances of the party.

Tax specialist Dan Neidle provided a chart which clearly shows what should have happened and what actually happened:

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions

A 🧵 with the evidence: pic.twitter.com/eT4vrFLhVn

— Dan Neidle (@DanNeidle) April 18, 2026

Corporations make all this stuff sound very complicated. According to Neidle, however, this should have been straightforward for the accountants handling the matter:

Richard Tice had a different explanation for why no tax was paid when he spoke to the Sunday Times last month.

Tice's statements here are all incorrect. pic.twitter.com/F3GrwVwNgu

— Dan Neidle (@DanNeidle) April 18, 2026

Enter Robert Jenrick to defend Tice.

Tory boy

In the clip at the top, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg said to Jenrick:

When it comes to Reform, your party has said that your colleague Richard Tice made a minor administrative error when The Times had revealed he failed to pay £91,000 in tax. This morning, The Times is reporting that he also failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax. Now, when Angela Rayner failed to pay £40,000 in tax, Richard Tice suggested she was a hypocrite and she should resign. So if he’s following his own suggestion, shouldn’t Richard Tice resign?

We mean, the answer is obvious, isn’t it?

If you think politicians should step down for getting their tax bills wrong, then yes, you also think Tice needs to go.

Here’s what Jenrick said:

Well, Richard is a very successful businessman.

For whatever reason, these people think it’s a good idea to link ‘tax dodging’ with ‘successful business’.

We mean, they’re correct that this is what people mean by ‘successful business’; we just don’t think they want the public to realise that.

Jenrick added:

He’s had a 40-year business career. He’s created thousands of jobs. He’s paid millions of pounds in tax. I would contrast that with everyone who sits around the cabinet table, none of whom seem to have even worked in the private sector.

Donald Trump is currently running America like it’s the private sector; how’s that going?

Prominent journalist Cenk Uygur exposes a massive insider trading scandal within the Trump administration. He reveals an anonymous account, heavily rumored to be Barron Trump, is making billions by manipulating oil markets using classified pre-knowledge of the Iran war. pic.twitter.com/YstCbuX0NP

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) April 18, 2026

This ‘have you even worked in the private sector?’ guff might have worked in the coalition years, but people are wise to what business people are like now.

Jenrick also said:

He believes he has paid the tax that he should have paid. In fact, he thinks he may have overpaid tax because he paid it through his personal taxation rather than through the company.

Oh, we’re absolutely sure he thinks he paid too much tax.

Guys like Tice think they paid too much tax from penny one.

Tice the hypocrisy

Jenrick finished:

Look, of course, newspapers, we’re heading to local elections, we’re leading the polls, as we have been for over a year. They look into people’s tax affairs sometimes. Richard has paid the tax that he was due and that’s the most important thing.

Lest we forget, the problems with this are:

Tice previously called for Rayner to resign over her tax affairs, meaning Reform can’t complain now that the shoe’s on the other foot.
The Times claim there is tax that has gone unpaid.

We doubt Tice will step down, because making tax dodging great again is clearly one of Reform’s ambitions.

This affair could damage Reform’s standing, though.

The question is whether that damage amounts to £100k’s worth.

Featured image via BBC