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...

The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) today criticised the Government for using taxpayers' money as an easy way out, and urged them to explore other solutions that would limit the amount of our money at risk. With taxpayers' money on the line,...

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 TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) presents a new and comprehensive study of the Barnett Formula, the Government system used to calculate the distribution of public spending between the four countries of the UK, that reveals the staggering cost to taxpayers of...

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

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

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

This - - is a rather good response to the TPA - I don't agree with everything on the site (e.g. the attack on PFI) but good to see someone isn't allowing the TPA a free run. A few quotes: "The TaxPayers' Alliance is a tremendously successful campaign group. Barely a day goes by without Chief Executive Matthew Elliott appearing in the media, representing the views of "ordinary taxpayers". In fact n...

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