Richard Murphy on tax, accounting and political economy

People who do not care

Posted on May 21 2022

What gets me are people who do not care. How can they do that? I will never know.

Can it really be right that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has profited by £55 million from audit failure?

Posted on May 20 2022

I have a new article out on AccountingWEB where I ask: Can it really be right that a cosy club-style arrangement between the Financial Reporting
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Let’s face it: the Met must be corrupt. Partygate is really hard to explain unless that is the case

Posted on May 20 2022

A great deal is being said about Partygate today. Those with considerably more legal expertise in this area than I have got appear to be
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Public sector debt paranoia at this moment in time is no excuse for the government imposing private poverty on the UK’s population

Posted on May 20 2022

As the Guardian has noted: Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1974 amid growing concern over the
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Inflation will go away – because it always does – and in the meantime here’s how to deal with it

Posted on May 20 2022

One of the arguments that Danny Blanchflower and I are making in our two person opposition to the prevailing establishment thinking on inflation is that
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The F word is out in parliament – and rightly so

Posted on May 20 2022

SNP MP Mhairi Black made this speech in parliament yesterday: https://twitter.com/mhairiblack/status/1526999103615401984?s=21&t=5mxpvylZdZOI-F8OQsCjIA For those who would rather read her speech, this is from Hansard: For a party
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If the Bank of England is to pubish a textbook on economics it really should get it right when it comes to describing how modern banks work – but it does not

Posted on May 20 2022

This comes from page 182 of the Kindle edition* of the new Bank of England book on economics, which is in the chapter explaining the
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On LBC this morning…

Posted on May 19 2022

On LBC this morning: Director of Tax Research UK Professor Richard Murphy warns the government is using an outdated policy to deal with inflation as
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Six things to do about inflation – my article in The Mirror this morning

Posted on May 19 2022

This is in The Mirror this morning: Unlike Rishi Sunak, I have a plan to tackle inflation. Read it here. Or here (if you can):