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Richard Brooks (born 18 August 1965) is a British investigative journalist and former tax inspector. He writes principally for ''
Private Eye ''Private Eye'' is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent critici ...
'', is the author of books on accountancy and
tax avoidance Tax avoidance is the legal usage of the tax regime in a single territory to one's own advantage to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. A tax shelter is one type of tax avoidance, and tax havens are jurisdi ...
, and was a 16-year senior corporate tax inspector for
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. He is the joint winner of two
Paul Foot Award The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up by ''The Guardian'' and ''Private Eye'' in memory of the journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004. The award, from 2005 to 2014, was for material published in ...
s, an annual award for investigative or campaigning journalism.


Career

Brooks worked as a
HM Revenue and Customs HM Revenue and Customs (His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) is a non-ministerial government department, non-ministerial Departments of the United Kingdom Government, department of the His Majesty's Government, UK Government responsible fo ...
tax inspector for 16 years up until 2005 specialising in international and
corporate taxation A corporate tax, also called corporation tax or company tax, is a direct tax imposed on the income or capital of corporations or analogous legal entities. Many countries impose such taxes at the national level, and a similar tax may be imposed a ...
. Since 2005, he has been a regular contributor to
Private Eye ''Private Eye'' is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent critici ...
. In 2008 Brooks was joint-winner of the
Paul Foot Award The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up by ''The Guardian'' and ''Private Eye'' in memory of the journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004. The award, from 2005 to 2014, was for material published in ...
for his investigation into the privatisation of the
CDC Group British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation) is the development finance institution of the UK government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ...
. He is the author of ''The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business'' (2013) and the co-author (with David Craig) of ''Plundering the Public Sector: How New Labour are letting consultants run off with £70 billion of our money'' (2006). With Andrew Bousfield, he was joint-winner again of the
Paul Foot Award The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up by ''The Guardian'' and ''Private Eye'' in memory of the journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004. The award, from 2005 to 2014, was for material published in ...
in 2014 for their investigations in ''Private Eye'' on bribery in''Shady Arabia and the Desert Fix''. In 2018 Brooks published a new book, ''Bean Counters: The Triumph of Accountants and how they broke Capitalism''. In January 2022, Brooks alongside
Ian Hislop Ian David Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, and editor of the magazine ''Private Eye''. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programmes and has been a team captain on the BBC quiz sho ...
and Solomon Hughes presented evidence on MPs' conduct to the House of Commons' Standards Committee


Bibliography

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See also

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Corporate tax haven Corporate haven, corporate tax haven, or multinational tax haven is used to describe a jurisdiction that multinational corporations find attractive for establishing subsidiaries or incorporation of regional or main company headquarters, mostly du ...
* Base erosion and profit shifting *
Feargal O'Rourke Feargal “Sake” O'Rourke (born 3 August 1964) is an Irish accountant and corporate tax expert, who is the managing partner of PwC in Ireland. He is considered the architect of the '' Double Irish'' tax scheme used by U.S. firms such as App ...
*
Tax Justice Network The Tax Justice Network (or TJN) is an advocacy group consisting of a coalition of researchers and activists with a shared concern about tax avoidance, tax competition, and tax havens. Empirical results The TJN has reported on the OECD Base ...
*
Matheson (law firm) Matheson (previously Matheson Ormsby Prentice), is an Irish law firm partnership based in the IFSC in Dublin, which specialises in multinational tax schemes (e.g. for clients in Ireland such as Microsoft, Google and Abbot), and tax struc ...
* Ireland as a tax haven


References


External links


Richard Brooks: Guardian
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