Richard Murphy is Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University Management School and a long-time campaigner for economic justice. He writes on economics, politics tax and accounting on his b
Most working people, the young, the poor and middling including many Brexit voters, much of middle England and almost all Scots, will lose out under Johnson's plan. But he doesn’t care.
On the first day of 2016 trading the FTSE 500 index nosedived. This surprised perennially optimistic business commentators, but will not surprise those who read the EREP review of the UK economy in 2015. Read part two here.
Thus, the ultra-flexible UK labour market (“with employers in the driving seat”, in the government’s own charming words) – to be enhanced by the repressive new Trade Union Act – has had the effect of causing productivity to fall. Read part one here.
Labour is considering an NHS tax, we are told. But whether through National Insurance, or some other market tax, this is a regressive, market-friendly policy.
Today the Chancellor presented his third budget since the Coalition gained power and ushered in the era of austerity. Tax expert Richard Murphy decodes a "really rather nasty budget" and ponders its gifts to the opposition.
The entire continent is being steered towards disaster - for the sake of economically nonsensical policies that benefit only the banks while decimating societies.
London's tent city is on sacred land - the skirts of St Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's position on the occupation will be crucial for its future. Will it remember Christ's mission to free the oppressed and bring good news to the poor?
How do we reconcile the idealistic aspirations of the tax justice movement with the pragmatic need for reform? Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research LLP, sets out proposals.
