How a fair tax system can can create a better society
Richard Murphy is a UK chartered accountant. He was senior partner
of a practicing firm and director of a number of entrepreneurial
companies before becoming one of the founders of the Tax Justice
Network in 2003. He now directs Tax Research UK and writes,
broadcasts and blogs extensively.
Richard created the country-by-country reporting concept for
multinational companies and has been credited with creating much of
the debate on tax gaps in the UK and Europe. He also defined the
term 'secrecy jurisdictions', now widely used in debates on
offshore taxation. He has been described as the architect of
'Corbynomics' as part of the Corbyn campaign for leadership of the
labour party.
Richard is joint author of Tax Havens, The True Story of
Globalisation and sole author of The Courageous State. In 2015 he
became Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at
City University, London.
He has done the impossible: writing a book on tax that is not the
literary equivalent of a handful of sleeping pills... A brief but
critically important book. It needs to be read by politicians and
journalists as a matter of urgency
*Times Higher Educational Supplement*
Richard Murphy is a rare voice of sanity at a time of economic
madness. We desperately need an alternative to austerity - and with
a few more Murphys, we'll get it.
*Owen Jones, author of The Establishment*
Conventional economists have run out of ideas. But Richard Murphy
abounds with them. He writes with electric clarity about what went
wrong and what could be done to put things right. He is a new
economic thinker, and guided by a sharp and practical accountant's
eye he knows where the money is hidden, who has it and how to
release it. Murphy is is as courageous as he says our politicians
should be.
*The Guardian*
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