Home
  • About
  • Richard Murphy
  • The Tax Research Wiki
  • Publications
  • Policies
  • Donations

Richard Murphy on tax, accounting and political economy

36
Can Uber afford its tax and wages bills?

Posted on February 19 2021

As the BBC has just reported: Ride hailing taxi app firm Uber must classify its drivers as workers rather than self-employed, the UK’s Supreme Court
Read the full article…

35
The UK’s new VAT system on imports has not the slightest chance of working – and keeps honest traders out of the country

Posted on January 6 2021

The Byline Times is amongst many media organisations reporting one of the most crass consequences of Brexit, so far. As they note (and the whole
Read the full article…

11
Good Law Project forces HMRC to collect £1.5bn in VAT from Uber

Posted on October 23 2020

I share this from the Good Law Project, just published: Way back in April 2017, we announced we were going to take on HMRC’s failure to
Read the full article…

15
HMRC has a lot of explaining to do on its latest tax ‘facts’

Posted on January 29 2020

HM Revenue & Customs published a ‘factsheet’ on Monday on the supposed success of the ‘Diverted Profits Tax’ (DPT), introduced by George Osborne in 2015
Read the full article…

36
What to do about VAT?

Posted on June 10 2019

Some people have noted my criticism of Michael Gove’s plans for a ‘simple sales tax’ to replace VAT and have said that maybe he has
Read the full article…

2
Gove, VAT and Channel 4 news

Posted on June 9 2019

I wrote about Michael Gove’s bizarre plan to scrap VAT this morning. It transferred to Channel 4 news this evening, wth credit given, Start at
Read the full article…

28
Why Michael Gove’s plan to abolish VAT could be a tax increase and help imports

Posted on June 9 2019

The Tory leadership race really is starting to look like the silly season for policy ideas. Michael Gove’s suggestion that we get rid of VAT
Read the full article…

26
The Institute for Fiscal Studies continues to spread falsehoods on VAT

Posted on May 27 2019

The FT reports this morning that: Britain’s tax system is progressive and takes significantly more money from the rich than the poor, the Institute for
Read the full article…

1
Has ‘Auditor’s Nose’ ceased to exist?

Posted on May 10 2019

A regular commentator on this blog sent me a mail saying this yesterday: I came across this article today. https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-05-07/how-major-banks-turned-a-blind-eye-to-the-theft-of-billions-of-pounds-of-public-money I did know about it, having
Read the full article…

1 2 … 21 Next
  • Richard Murphy

    Read more about me

  • Newsletter signup

    Get a daily email of my blog posts.

    Please wait...

    Thank you for sign up!

  • Support Tax Research

    Loading…
  • Follow me on Twitter

    Tweets by @RichardJMurphy



    web analytics


  • May 2022
    M T W T F S S
     1
    2345678
    9101112131415
    16171819202122
    23242526272829
    3031  
    « Apr    
  • Categories

  • Archives

  • Search

  • Creative Commons License
    Tax Research UK Blog is written by Richard Murphy unless otherwise stated and published by ​Tax Research LLP under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

    Design by Andy Moyle

    Tax Research UK Cookies Policy

    Our Website uses cookies to improve your experience. Please visit our Private: Data Protection & Cookie Policy page for more information about cookies and how we use them.

    Close