Richard Murphy on tax, accounting and political economy

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The era of Enlightenment is most definitely under threat. Maybe it is drawing to a close. A very Dark Age is starting.

Posted on October 21 2021

Two stories in the Guardian grabbed my attention this morning. One is a report on Sajid Javid’s car crash interview on Covid yesterday. Twitter was
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This government is creating harm and stoking fear. Why are we tolerating that? For how long will we do so?

Posted on October 21 2021

The government is refusing to act on Covid. By doing so it is exacerbating a crisis that is increasing rapidly. This tweet from the editor
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Doctors are fighting back against populism – and so should others

Posted on October 21 2021

It seems to me that this statement from the British Medical Association, issued yesterday, is worth sharing in full: The political significance of this can’t
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The Bank of England is hatching a not very cunning plan to make the economy very much worse in 2022

Posted on October 20 2021

As the FT has reported this morning, the Bank of England is not just planning interest rate rises – very soon – it is also
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£4 of the weekly cut in Universal Credit is going to be given in tax cuts to the UK’s banks

Posted on October 20 2021

As the FT notes this morning: Rishi Sunak will slash a tax surcharge on bank profits by more than 60 per cent in next week’s
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HM Treasury is not serious about climate change and its Net-Zero report is the clearest possible indication of that

Posted on October 20 2021

Having spent yesterday afternoon reading the government’s dismal proposals for new green corporate reporting – where the thinking simply does not add up to a
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The last thing that the UK needed right now was a cut in the VAT on gas

Posted on October 19 2021

I just posted this thread on Twitter: A cut in the VAT on gas is just about the worst way for this government to achieve
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The UK government approach to sustainability reporting announced today is pure greenwash

Posted on October 19 2021

The UK government issued a cross-department report on what they call a Roadmap to Sustainable Investing today. As they said: The report, entitled Greening Finance: A
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The Tax Research mailing list

Posted on October 19 2021

There is a bit of this blog that a lot of people do not notice. It is the box towards the right-hand top corner of
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