The TaxPayers' Alliance released its annual Public Sector Rich List today, always a sure-fire hit with the media. But it's the public sector workers we hear much less about - at the other end of the spectrum - that are of greatest concern. No Public Sector List for them - many are missing from the statistics as their work has been contracted out to private suppliers. Most are women, and ...

Now in its third edition, the TaxPayers' Alliance today publishes the Public Sector Rich List 2008, the definitive guide to all those in the public sector with remuneration packages over £150,000. Against a background of impending recession and at a time when the financial crisis is hitting ordinary families harder every day, this year's list is the biggest ever, exposing 387 publi...

George might need gloves for this one We've blogged public sector pay many times, including the issue of those portly moggies snuggled up in Town Halls and quangos throughout the land. The TaxPayers' Alliance has just published this year's Town Hall Rich List. It seems that despite our slumping economy, the number of council officials earning more than £100K pa has increased a...

Matthew Elliott, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “While ordinary families are suffering in the financial crisis, the public sector elite are enjoying record pay packages. Far too often, senior officials get massive pay rises and generous bonuses despite serious failures on their watch. Where someone is earning huge amounts at taxpayers’ expense they must be acco...

With recession tightening its grip, the taxpaying public are more concerned than ever about the size of the tax burden, the efficiency of public services and getting value for money from the state. It is for that reason that the TaxPayers’ Alliance has published the third annual Public Sector Rich List, which provides a full run-down of the 387 public sector employees from 140 different orga...

New research from the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) details the steep rise in ‘communication’ spending among Britain’s quangos. With the public deficit ballooning, quangos are spending more on expensive public and media relations departments. From a sample of 32 public bodies,...

The bureaucracy is still coining it in, whilst companies go to the wall, Chief executives in the public sector have had a 10% increase in salaries at your expense. 50 000 new public sector posts have been created in the last six months. Vote Tory/Labour/LibDem you know it makes sense- suckers Summary here

I saw Polly Toynbee talk a couple of weeks ago, and she pointed out that you are in the top ten percent of earners if you earn more than £40,000. Now, Polly is notorious for quoting dodgy figures but, if this is true, there are some very high earners in the public sector. Yes, the Taxpayers' Alliance has produced its annual Public Sector Rich List [PDF], which documents those public sector employ...

The Taxpayers' Alliance has published its Town Hall Rich List and as the recession bites for the rest of us, if you happen to be one of the Town Hall bosses, you will not be feeling the pinch. There are some bosses who earn more than the prime minister and many more who earn more than cabinet ministers. All of this money for never having to market a product, sell and increase your market...

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