Richard Murphy (accountant)
Encyclopedia
Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant, the founder of the Tax Justice Network
and the TUC on taxation and economic issues, and a columnist for The Guardian
and Forbes.com. He is also the director of Tax Research LLP.
Murphy advocates "country by country reporting", as a means to increase financial transparency in order to reduce tax avoidance
and evasion.
Murphy advocates the Green New Deal
.
Tax Justice Network
The Tax Justice Network is a coalition of researchers and activists with a shared concern about what they argue are the harmful impacts of tax avoidance, tax competition and tax havens, which "corrupt national tax regimes and onshore regulation, and distort markets by rewarding economic...
and the TUC on taxation and economic issues, and a columnist for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and Forbes.com. He is also the director of Tax Research LLP.
Public policy
Murphy is a prominent promoter of financial reform, with specific emphasis given to tax avoidance/evasion.Murphy advocates "country by country reporting", as a means to increase financial transparency in order to reduce tax avoidance
Tax avoidance
Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one's own advantage, to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. The term tax mitigation is a synonym for tax avoidance. Its original use was by tax advisors as an alternative to the pejorative term tax...
and evasion.
Murphy advocates the Green New Deal
Green New Deal
A Green New Deal is a report released on July 21, 2008 by the Green New Deal Group and published by the New Economics Foundation, which outlines a series of policy proposals to tackle global warming, the current financial crisis, and peak oil. The report calls for the re-regulation of finance and...
.