Leading UK Commentator Joins TaxationWeb
TaxationWeb, a tax website for UK taxpayers and professional advisers, has today announced that a leading tax commentator is to become a regular columnist and contributor to the site.
Richard Murphy is a well-known adviser and campaigner on tax policy issues. He is a regular radio and TV commentator on tax and corporate accountability, whose articles have appeared in a wide range of professional journals. He wrote for the Observer on taxation issues for a number of years. Richard also writes a popular daily blog on tax-related matters.
TaxationWeb was launched in 2002 and is now the UK’s leading independent website devoted to tax matters.
Co-founder and Managing Editor Mark McLaughlin is a Chartered Tax Adviser and a well-known author of tax books and articles.
Mark McLaughlin said: “We are all thrilled at TaxationWeb that Richard has agreed to join us as a regular columnist. His experience and track record as a tax commentator is second to none, and I am sure that his articles will greatly enhance the content on TaxationWeb. It will be a privilege to work with someone of Richard’s high calibre”
Background information:
1. TaxationWeb (www.taxationweb.co.uk) is the UK’s leading independent dedicated tax information website. The site currently attracts around 130,000 unique visitors per month, comprising both taxpayers and tax professionals.
2. TaxationWeb is an online tax community and information directory, and an invaluable source of information for taxpayers, accountants and tax professionals. It is a UK-registered Limited company, with offices in Manchester, UK and Nice, France.
3. TaxationWeb was originally founded in 2002 by Mark McLaughlin CTA (Fellow) ATT TEP, a Chartered Tax Adviser (www.markmclaughlin.co.uk) and Martino Matijevic, an Internet Marketing Consultant (www.dorifor.com). They were later joined by Sarah Laing, a leading tax author, as TaxationWeb’s News Editor, and by Chris Bale as the company’s Commercial Director. For further information, visit www.taxationweb.co.uk/about/
4. Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant and graduate economist. He trained with KPMG in London before setting up his own firm in 1985 in London. He and his partners sold the firm in 2000 when it had 800 clients, with a particular focus on media enterprises. He is a serial entrepreneur, having helped launch or direct more than 10 companies, some of them backed by venture capital. These have included companies in the IT, toy, environmental and arts sectors.
5. Since 2000 Richard has increasingly been involved in taxation policy, both as an adviser and campaigner. He is director Tax Research LLP and advises the Tax Justice Network, the Publish What You Pay campaign, Christian Aid, the TUC and many other organisations on tax issues. He advises several prominent MPs and members of the Treasury Select Committee on taxation issues. He has also advised the States of Jersey on reform of its taxations systems and has addressed meetings of the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters and of the European Commission Directorate on taxation policy. His current research work is largely funded by the Ford Foundation. He has been a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants’ Academic Research Committee and is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and at the Tax Research Institute at the University of Nottingham. He was formerly a visiting fellow at the University of Portsmouth Business School
6. Richard is a regular radio and TV commentator on tax and corporate accountability. He has participated in the making of television documentaries for Panorama, Dispatches and the Money Programme, including for the latter an analysis of Mohammed al Fayed’s tax affairs. He contributes regularly to File on Four and other BBC Radio 4 documentaries. He has worked with broadcasters in a number of other countries. His articles have appeared in a wide range of professional journals. He wrote for the Observer on taxation issues for a number of years. He writes a daily blog at www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog.