Charting a crisis So once again, it's taxpayers to the rescue. The bill will be big and will have several chunky elements: Debt - governments are taking on a stack of debt from floundering banks; in the US the transfer...

This article highlights that the "Taxpayers' Alliance" seem rather reluctant to condemn the activities of corporate tax dodgers. This is strange since, it is because the wealthy dodge tax that ordinary taxpayers have to pay more taxes than they otherwise would do. By defending the tax dodging of wealthy individuals and corporations, the TPA demonstrate that they are not interested in standing up f...

Charting a crisis So once again, it's taxpayers to the rescue. The bill will be big and will have several chunky elements: Debt - governments are taking on a stack of debt from floundering banks; in the US the transfer is adding hundreds of billions to taxpayer debt; here in the UK we've already got the Crock's £100bn, plus whatever implicit guarantees Brown may have given Llo...

Yet more rich peeps say “tax me, tax me!“. “I would say to Merkel that the answer to sorting out Germany’s financial problems, our public debt, is not to bring in cuts, which will disproportionately hit poorer people, but to tax the wealthy more,” said Lehmkuhl. “We are always hearing about savings packages, but never

Today is an exciting one for the TaxPayers' Alliance - our UK Debt Clock starts its 1,300 mile tour of Britain, highlighting the vast scale of the national debt to taxpayers right across the country. For many years now, there...

Vino is right - when the Tax Payers Alliance refuse to condemn tax dodging by rich people and corporations, they’re acting in the interests of the super-rich. This is strange since, it is because the wealthy dodge tax that ordinary taxpayers have to pay more taxes than they otherwise would do. By defending the tax

Today, the TaxPayers' Alliance presents their new, online Green Tax Calculator which allows users to calculate, using their personal travel habits, household bills, and even specific make of car, the amount they are paying for green taxes and regulations. In...

Reducing government debt would take priority over tax cuts if the Conservatives won the next election, David Cameron said yesterday, as aides insisted the party's controversial commitment to raise the threshold for paying inheritance tax to £1m would remain in place. In a speech yesterday, Cameron appeared to keep to the government's plan to increase the rate of tax to 45p for ...

In response to the 2009 Budget Speech, which committed British taxpayers to record levels of debt, TaxPayers' Alliance Chief Executive Matthew Elliott said: “This Budget commits taxpayers to a terrifying amount of debt that will burden ordinary families for decades...

From the Bristol and South West TPA blog: TaxPayers’ Alliance urges Bristol politicians to co-operate to cut taxes “Best of the Budgets” would provide a 2.2% tax cut The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) wishes to congratulate all the political parties currently...