THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION THE SMALL COMPANY TAX GAP Funding the Future | July 2026 Today’s Topic The small company corporation
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How to find £17 billion
Britain is constantly told there isn’t enough money. We’re told there isn’t enough to build council housing. Not enough to improve transport. Not enough to
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Is Making Tax Digital going to destroy the UK tax system?
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), the Comptroller-General of Finances under Louis XIV of France, is widely credited with saying: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking
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The alternative budget we need: the video
Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 10: tax reforms
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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Hot money
I was asked over the weekend if I would create a glossary entry on hot money, and given that this seemed both appropriate and not
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Economic questions: the Thomas Piketty question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?
The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and
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How to end phoenixing
As the FT notes this morning: HM Revenue & Customs has lost hundreds of millions of pounds more than previously estimated to an insolvency practice
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