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

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

The Guardians exposing of the hypocrisy of the taxpayer’s alliance is a welcomed piece. I have been astonished how lazy some journalists have been in basing ‘outrage’ articles on the words of these people. The fact is that this alliance is nothing more than a right wing pressure group. They may call themselves the taxpayer’s alliance but I am a taxpayer and they do not repr...

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 ...

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

About Abu Hamza’s house being done up by the council: But a spokes-woman for the TaxPayers’ ­Alliance said: “Taxpayers will be ­incensed to hear that thousands are ­being spent on this hate preacher’s home while ordinary families struggle for cash. “It’s bad enough that the British ­public may be stuck with this venomous

Cllr Carter at the glitzy opening of Kent TV - funded by taxpayers For some reason, the TaxPayers' Alliance seems to have upset a number of local councils. One of them is Kent. This morning, the Leader of Kent CC, Paul Carter, writes to the late lamented Torygraph* saying: "The TaxPayers’ Alliance has received much publicity after publishing salaries of senior public sector staff gained...

Thinking a bit more about the Taxpayers' Alliance, what annoys me about them is the way that they subvert real and legitimate taxpayer concerns to support their own ideological agenda. Really we ought be able to rely on organisations such as the Audit Commission and the IFS to provide an independent perspective and public spending and government projects. But unfortunately the TPA have (curre...

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 ...