The summary of this report says:
Brief Summary
This note suggests that:
The UK should create an Office for Tax Responsibility (OTR).
This OTR should report to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee so that it might hold HM Revenue & Customs, HM Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to account for their management of the UK tax system.
The Office for Tax Responsibility should be responsible for preparing annual assessments of the UK tax gap[1] and tax spillovers[2].
Presumably to be run by Britain’s foremost retired accountant and expert in the tax gap and tax spillovers?
I suspect the Office for Budget Responsibility* was set up with exactly the same motives. Except by grifters with rather more influence.
*On performance, should be renamed office for Budget Irresponsibility. Since it seems to be dedicated to avoiding the blame.
What amuses me about Spud and those like him is the amount of vitriol they hold for the actual creators of wealth. They hate us, but they don’t hate what we produce. Not enough to not want to expropriate it for spurious ends.
We already have a body that holds the Chancellor to account. It’s called ‘the voters’.
That mechanism seems to be broken…and for quite a while.
OBR = Office of Blairite Remainiacs
Grifters gonna grift.
The recent “Sustainable Cost Accounting” stratagem obviously didn’t get much traction.
As has often been pointed out, his pension provision is abysmal as things stand and this from the Telegraph was interesting:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/17/british-university-finances-ticking-time-bomb/
What are the chances he is skint and growing desperate? – Good, I hope the bastard starves.
The only spillover Richard Murphy actually understands is the spillover of hot soup onto his trousers.
Even then, the understanding is only brief.
The recent “Sustainable Cost Accounting” stratagem obviously didn’t get much traction.
He’s just waiting for the laughter to die down.
He’s cutting and pasting old blogs again https://www.t*xresearch.org.uk/Blog/2014/10/21/why-havent-we-got-an-office-for-tax-responsibility/
He put it forward when Margaret Hodge was PAC chair, and she might well have given him a job. He’s forgotten that an opposition MP always chairs the PAC. Even if a Starmer government does this, a Conservative chair is not likely to give him a job.
Sam,
My money is on him not knowing it rather than having forgotten. He is by his own admission not a details man and that level of knowledge requires research and details.
Well, if he’s skint he could always move to accommodation appropriate for a single person.
Ah, the rise of the political commissars begins!
He might be being subtler than you give him credit for. The SNP could be the official opposition in the next parliament.