Richard J Murphy - Tax justice should meet the tax gap in 2021 -
The tax justice movement has come a long way in the eighteen years or so it has been going, but there is still a long way to go. This, the third in a series of videos, discusses of the issues that the tax justice movement now really needs to embrace and understand, which is the nature of the tax gap. The tax gap is the difference between that tax that might be paid on a tax base and the actual anoint paid, taking into consideration no less than five reasons why tax paid might not, for officially sanctioned (but maybe inappropriate) and varying illicit reasons, be less than anticipated. Understand the tax gap, I suggest, and you know a great deal of what needs to be achieved to deliver tax justice. So why is tax justice ignoring it.
For more on the tax gap read this. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198854722.001.0001/oso-9780198854722-chapter-4
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'.
Follow Richard on his Twitter: www.twitter.com/RichardJMurphy or on his blog: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/
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