{"id":12784,"date":"2011-11-10T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12784"},"modified":"2011-11-10T17:39:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:39:55","slug":"tax-justice-campaigner-richard-murphy-to-speak-at-occupy-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/10\/tax-justice-campaigner-richard-murphy-to-speak-at-occupy-norwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax justice campaigner Richard Murphy to speak at Occupy Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>#OccupyNorwich have just issued the\u00a0following\u00a0press release:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Occupy Norwich continue their series of discussions on the crisis\u00a0at 1pm on Sunday at their camp on The Haymarket with a visit by\u00a0Norfolk-based anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert Richard Murphy.\u00a0 All are welcome to attend and join in the discussion about the global economic crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>He is the\u00a0writer of the No 1 economics blog in the UK, and\u00a0the co-author of \"Tax Havens: How Globalisation Really Works\" and is due to have another book,\"The Courageous State\",\u00a0published shortly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>He is a founder of the Tax Justice Network\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.taxjustice.net<\/a> and is now the director of Tax Research LLP\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.taxresearch.org.uk<\/a>, carrying out taxation policy analysis for aid agencies, trade unions and pressure groups, and also a member of the Green New Deal Group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greennewdealgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.greennewdealgroup.org<\/a>, which advocates financial reform plus green\u00a0spending\u00a0on such things as renewable energy and home insulation to beat both the environmental and economic crises<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>On Sunday he will discuss his research on the 'tax gap', the difference between\u00a0the tax that\u00a0ought to be paid and the tax that is actually paid, with evasion, avoidance and simple non-payment amounting to around \u00a3120 billion per annum - easily enough to avoid all government cuts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Quote from Richard Murphy:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\"The economic crisis has one cause - the tax gap. Collecting tax will be the solution\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>See you there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#OccupyNorwich have just issued the\u00a0following\u00a0press release: Occupy Norwich continue their series of discussions on the crisis\u00a0at 1pm on Sunday at their camp on The Haymarket<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/11\/10\/tax-justice-campaigner-richard-murphy-to-speak-at-occupy-norwich\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,35,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courageous-state","category-economics","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}