Richard Murphy

Friday morning thoughts

Posted on July 10 2020

From me on Twitter this morning:

Even Sunak’s senior officials think he’s getting his economic policy wrong

Posted on July 10 2020

Jim Harra, permanent secretary and so CEO of HM Revenue & Customs has objected to two of Sunak’s announcements this week. As the BBC report:
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Does country-by-country reporting work? You bet it does….

Posted on July 10 2020

It is 17 years since I wrote the first draft of what is now called country-by-country reporting (CBCR). Since then it has come a long
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HMRC is claiming that the UK is now the most compliant tax paying nation on earth, and I do not believe that

Posted on July 10 2020

HMRC published its tax gap data for 2018/19 yesterday. I have long criticised this annual debacle which has always published a number between £29bn and £38bn
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Â£3bn is a good start, but there is so much more to do to make the UK sustainable

Posted on July 10 2020

My Green New Deal Group colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial (7 July) is right to insist that
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An economic plan for the UK is a single tweet

Posted on July 9 2020

I have tweeted this: A UK economic plan in a tweet Spend money on care and energy efficiency in every constituency. Deliver a strong NHS
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Â£15 billion for PPE? Really? Something feels very wrong here

Posted on July 9 2020

The government has claimed it has spent £15 billion on PPE as a result of coronavirus. Given that we know there shortages of PPE until
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The debt fetishists are back in town, asking all the wrong questions, but with massively dangerous consequences

Posted on July 9 2020

Chris Giles at the FT had a good coronavirus crisis: his work on estimating real deaths was widely noted. But now he’s back in familiar
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