Over a number of months Carline Lucas MP has asked a series of parliamentary questions seeking to secure information regarding the penalties paid by companies
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Why £40 billion of tax evasion in the shadow economy matters
I had this column on the Independent website yesterday: It was just chance that I decided to publish my new report on the size of the UK’s
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HMRC suggest I am abusing their VAT gap data. The trouble is the IMF do not agree with them
I have already blogged on one response made by HMRC to my new reports on the tax gap as reported in the Guardian this morning.
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Whose leg are HMRC pulling when they say they’re on top of corporate tax abuse?
I am very amused by HMRC’s response to my new reports – ‘In the Shade: The UK’s missing economy’ – as reported in the Guardian
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We always said Swiss banking was corrupt: now we know it’s true
Over many years I, and colleagues in the Tax Justice Network and elsewhere, said that offshore banking, and Swiss banking in particular, involved corruption. Now, as the
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‘In the Shade’ in the news: press coverage of my new report
There was good overnight press coverage for my new report on the size of the UK shadow economy. The FT made it the main UK
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In the Shade: the 10 minute (or less) summary of my new report
The new reports I have written that have been issued today under the title In the Shade and which address the enormous scale of the
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In the Shade: the UK’s missing economy
I issued the following press release last night: A new report, written by veteran tax campaigner and chartered accountant Richard Murphy and published jointly by
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Country-by-country reporting at the OECD this morning
The OECD discussed country-by-country reporting in Paris this morning. I was invited to present but because of my health at the time I was asked to
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