Bio:
Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant, founder of the Tax Justice Network and director of Tax Research LLP which undertakes work on taxation policy for a wide range of clients including governments, government agencies, commercial organisations, aid agencies and pressure groups in the UK and abroad.
Richard has been a visiting fellow at Portsmouth University Business School, the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and at the Tax Research Institute, University of Nottingham. He is a co-author of ‘Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works‘, Cornell University Press, 2009.
He was included in Accountancy Age’s “Financial Power List for 2006” as one of the 50 most influential names to look out for in 2006. He was promoted on publication of the 2007 list and in 2009 was placed at number 25.
Richard has written widely on taxation and accounting, including for the UK Observer. He has appeared in BBC radio and television documentaries on taxation issues. In has been chairman, chief executive or finance director of more than ten SMEs.
He specialised in tax before setting up his own firm in 1985. In 1989 this became Murphy Deeks Nolan, Chartered and Certified Accountants of which he was senior partner until he and his partners sold the then 800 client firm in 2000.
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e-mail: richard.murphy@taxresearch.org.uk
