Career
Until 2005, he was a tax inspector at HMRC, "specialising in international and corporate taxation". Brooks worked for the British government as an HMRC tax inspector for 16 years, followed by a year at the Treasury giving ministers policy advice. Since 2004, he has been a regular contributor to Private Eye.
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).
He is a former tax inspector. According to Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, "Richard Brooks is a digger and a troublemaker who niggles away at difficult subjects in a meticulous, punchy and highly effective way.".