Richard J Murphy - What is tax justice about in 2021? -
Tax justice has been going for eighteen years now. It has been phenomenally successful. We've won country-by-country reporting, beaten a lot of tax haven activity, increased the visibility of offshore accounts, improved corporate transparency, and more. But I am now concerned that this many years in these issues remain the focus of too many in tax justice. The demands tax justice should be making are big: tax justice should be seeking a fair society for all. In that case it needs to broaden its horizons. In this video, which is the first of a series, I set out what I think tax justice is about now and why it needs to re-assess what it is demanding to retain its relevance two decades after it began.
ABOUT RICHARD MURPHY
Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant. After training with what is now KPMG he established his a firm of accountants in London, of which he was subsequently senior partner, in parallel with a career as an entrepreneur and company director which lasted until his early 40s. He then moved to a career in campaigning and academia. He co-founded the Tax Justice Network in 2003, the Green New Deal in 2008, the Fair Tax Mark in 2013 and the Corporate Accountability Network in 2019. From 2015 to 2020 he was Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City, University of London and is now Visiting Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School. His best known book is 'The Joy of Tax'.
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