The financial crisis will eventually have an impact on taxpayers by the time the bills come in. But in some areas, council taxpayers may be hit sooner rather than later. It turns out that local councils in England and Wales, including eight London boroughs, have money tied up in Iceland's collapsing financial system with deposits in the bank Landsbanki. The Local Government Association says i...

The European Commission has fined Britain £74.5 million over the late payment of subsidies that pushed many farmers to the brink of financial collapse. We taxpayers get gouged to provide the support to the farmers in the first place. We taxpayers get gouged to pay the bureaucrats to administer the payments. We taxpayers get gouged to

Taxpayers could be asked to plug a £106 million black hole in a fund providing a second pension for MEPs to make up for cash lost to fraudulent investment schemes and during the financial crisis.

Amid the dark clouds of renewed financial chaos which have descended now the markets have decided that a few hundred thousand million in taxpayers' money isn't quite enough for them, and the likelihood that millions of taxpayers will lose their jobs in the near future, there are one or two silver linings. The first is that Gordon Brown, thanks to his consistent support for private profit over

At the TaxPayers' Alliance, we often have to criticise HMRC. Whether they're harassing law abiding taxpayers, pushing for new powers to take money straight out of people's bank accounts without approval from a court or losing people's personal data -...

All peers will have to relinquish their "non-domiciled" tax status and become UK taxpayers if they want to remain in Parliament, under a new Government law.

A law to limit the pensions of bankers who work for institutions bailed out by taxpayers is being introduced in Parliament.

The European Commission is stepping up infringement actions against a dozen EU countries because of their failure to implement financial rules

Warnings the £2bn package to unblock the financial system will cost taxpayers money as the state is liable when firms default.

Warnings the £20bn package to unblock the financial system will cost taxpayers money as the state is liable when firms default.