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...

Claims from The Taxpayers’ Alliance website that the fiscal stimulus measures contained in the Pre Budget report would result in double the national debt Britain incurred from the the Great War have been debunked by Don Paskini: “To get the figure of £255bn, the Taxpayers’ Alliance used the retail price index measure. As an economically valid

The very concept of an alliance of "ordinary taxpayers" is a nonsense. We are all taxpayers and so the TaxPayers' Alliance might as well claim to represent everyone. It in fact claims 20,000 supporters – an impressive enough figure, but one that represents just 0.04% of the adult population in Britain. What about the other 99.96%? The shadowy Tax Payers Alliance claims to be supporting ...

This is getting confusing. When we launched the Other TaxPayers’ Alliance we thought we were up against just one TaxPayers’ Alliance. Now we realise there were two. One TPA stands up for the little guy, protesting that public sector chiefs get bigger pay rises than hard-pressed frontline staff; the other stands up for top-rate tax

Are the Taxpayers’ Alliance a politically motivated, right-wing conservative group? Anybody applying the duck test knows the answer. But not the Taxpayers’ Alliance themselves. It is “outrageous” to claim they are on the right, or that they prefer any political party, their campaign manager Susie Squire spluttered on LBC Radio, when host Nick Ferrarri described

Oh, you can just imagine them chortling away in the TaxPayers’ Alliance producing the above video about the Common Agricultural Policy. It contains a heady mix of fact and prejudice and there’s even a report to go with it. The ’stats’ in the TaxPayers’ Alliance report are correct in as far as they go in

Alex pointed out yesterday the Taxpayers’ Alliance opposition to the public sector using Web 2.o technologies: Taxpayers don’t want more Web2.0. They want an end to wasteful spending. Now, if you think that spending money on Web 2.0 is necessarily wasteful (and that was the full depth of the Taxpayers’ Alliance – no nuanced point about some

No surprise to see the Right TaxPayers Alliance (as opposed to the far more sensible Other TaxPayers Alliance) straight into bat on behalf of those earning £150K or more. I've just seen some TPA dude argue on More 4 News that a 45% top rate will send a dangerous smell overseas or something. It's not surprising that the Right TPA take this line, as many of their business supporters ...

The Taxpayers Alliance has completed its report into the Barnett Formula with some damning conclusions.  Of course, the contents of this report are nothing new - we’ve been telling people for years how much the Barnett Formula is costing the English taxpayer! THE BARNETT FORMULA HAS COST TAXPAYERS £200 BILLION The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) presents a new

Taxpayer Scotland, which is linked to the London-based Taxpayers’ Alliance organisation, estimates Scotland’s debt could be as high as £189bn, even before taking into account its share of the national debt. Adding in Scotland’s £80bn share of the UK’s £940bn national debt suggests it might face a £269bn burden, costing more than £10bn in annual