Richard Brooks (journalist) explained

Richard Brooks
Birth Date:18 August 1965
Known For:Investigative journalism
Nationality:English

Richard Brooks (born 18 August 1965) is a British investigative journalist and former tax inspector. He writes principally for Private Eye, is the author of books on accountancy and tax avoidance, and was a 16-year senior corporate tax inspector for HMRC. He is the joint winner of two Paul Foot Awards, an annual award for investigative or campaigning journalism.

Career

Brooks worked as a HM Revenue and Customs tax inspector for 16 years up until 2005 specialising in international and corporate taxation.[1] [2]

Since 2005, he has been a regular contributor to Private Eye.[2] In 2008 Brooks was joint-winner of the Paul Foot Award for his investigation into the privatisation of the CDC Group. 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).[3] With Andrew Bousfield, he was joint-winner again of the Paul Foot Award in 2014 for their investigations in Private Eye on bribery inShady Arabia and the Desert Fix.[4] In 2018 Brooks published a new book, Bean Counters: The Triumph of Accountants and how they broke Capitalism.[5]

With Nick Wallis, he co-authored Private Eyes extensive report on the British Post Office scandal, "Justice Lost In The Post".[6]

In January 2022, Brooks alongside Ian Hislop and Solomon Hughes presented evidence on MPs' conduct to the House of Commons' Standards Committee[7] [8]

Bibliography

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References

  1. Web site: The principles of tax policy: Written evidence submitted by Richard Brooks. Parliament U.K.. 21 January 2011. I am a journalist with Private Eye magazine. I write on a number of issues including tax and was a member of the Guardian’s "Tax Gap" team that ran a series on corporate tax avoidance two years ago. Until 2005 I was a tax inspector at HMRC specialising in international and corporate taxation.
  2. Web site: Private Eye and public scandals. 14 October 2011. BBC News. Richard Brooks is one. He was a tax inspector for 16 years, and spent a year at the Treasury giving policy advice to ministers..
  3. Web site: Curtis Brown. www.curtisbrown.co.uk.
  4. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul_foot.php?issue=1249 "Paul Foot Award 2014"
  5. Web site: The Triumph of the Accountants by Richard Brooks — who guards the guards?. Financial Times. 5 June 2018.
  6. News: Justice Lost In The Post . Richard . Brooks . Nick . Wallis . Nick Wallis . . May 2020 . 10 April 2024.
  7. Web site: Ian Hislop Tears Into MPs Over Sleaze, Second Jobs And Lobbying . HuffPost UK . en . 25 January 2022.
  8. Web site: Standards Committee announce new evidence sessions on reform of Code of Conduct for MPs. Parliament . 29 January 2022 .

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