Long-time blogger and campaigner, Richard Murphy continues to be an influential voice in tax policy from academia to social media. He’s one of the most prominent voices on tax regularly featured in UK media.
Today, Murphy is professor of accounting at Sheffield University Management School and director of Tax Research UK, a position in which he offers advice and commentary including to trade unions and political parties.
Some might be surprised to hear that this accountant-turned-tax campaigner started out at KPMG and worked in-house. He has a similar background to most British tax professionals, but his career has taken a very different route over the last 20 years.
He was a founding member of the Tax Justice Network (TJN) and helped define its three-part agenda in 2002: automatic exchange of information (AEOI), public country-by-country reporting (CbCR) and unitary taxation by formulary apportionment.
The OECD has since taken up AEOI and Australia and the EU may be about to introduce public CbCR. The world is still far away from formulary apportionment, but the OECD’s two-pillar solution takes us closer to this systemic change.
Something of an entrepreneur when it comes to NGOs, Murphy founded the Corporate Accountability Network in 2019 to promote responsible accounting standards in businesses. His work will continue to be relevant in 2023.
