Publications
Friday, February 10th, 2023This page refers to and links where possible to my major publications, largely to shut up those trolls who say I have never written anything.
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Richard Murphy
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Richard Murphy (66) was a practising chartered accountant for forty years and is now a political economist. He is Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University
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About
Monday, July 3rd, 2006Funding the Future is written and managed by Richard Murphy on behalf of Tax Research LLP. Funding the Future, Tax Research UK and The Finance
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We need to be awake to nature
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024One of the strangest consequences of running a blog that has quite a high volume of traffic is that I receive a great many press
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 and modern monetary theory - again
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024I had a Twitter direct mail message from a quite well-known person a few days ago, asking two questions about the Taxing Wealth Report 2024.
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Capital gains tax on houses - again
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024I returned to the subject of capital gains tax on people’s homes yesterday, knowing well that of all the proposals I made in the Taxing
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Labour has abandoned its environmental commitments. Is it any surprise that UK big business is following its lead?
Saturday, April 20th, 2024As the Guardian notes this morning: Unilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should “hang their
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The FT view: let those least able to pay bear the burden of tax
Thursday, April 18th, 2024The FT editorial this morning says: I agree with all that. But then the FT reveals its spots. Having implied that changes to rules on
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The rich won't quit
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024This YouTube is a further discussion of ‘Colin’ and his threat to quit as a result of tax increases, already discussed in a different way,
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