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New MashBeerTax.org A4 campaign poster. Have you signed up to tell your MP...
If you’re a pub landlord and you’d like to put up a poster in your pub to tell people about MashBeerTax.org (the campaign to stop yet another increase in drinks tax in the Budget) click the image below...
View ArticleDon’t believe the nonsense, the Work Programme worked for Cait Reilly
This afternoon Parliament will likely make emergency changes to welfare legislation following the fallout from the Cait Reilly Poundland case . Critics of the policy being pursued by the Government,...
View ArticleThe rocketing cost of council pensions in Waltham Forest
In July last year, we revealed the substantial rise in council staff drawing pensions compared to those paying in. We also revealed in April last year the enormous black hole in the Local Government...
View ArticleComment: Sorry Mr Hammond, MPs don’t deserve a pay rise
Writing for politics.co.uk TPA Campaign Manager Eleanor McGrath argues against a 60 per cent pay rise for MPs. It emerged over the weekend that transport minister Stephen Hammond thinks MPs deserve a...
View ArticleCorporation Tax progress undone by Business Rates and National Insurance,...
Sainsbury’s boss Justin King has criticised unfairness in the tax system, contrasting the bill for high street operators with their online counterparts. The supermarket giant’s chief executive also...
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Camden Council and this year’s Town Hall Rich List
Councillors on Camden Council have disputed the numbers for their council in this year’s Town Hall Rich List, which was compiled using the council’s own accounts. This isn’t unusual: every year a few...
View ArticleOur reaction to today’s NAO report on HS2
Reacting to today’s National Audit Office report High Speed 2: A review of early programme preparation Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “HS2 will saddle every family...
View ArticleReaction to today’s Public Accounts Commitee: We need tax reform, not empty...
Reacting to Thursday’s evidence at the Public Accounts Committee, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Yet again the Public Accounts Committee has offered stinging...
View ArticlePatrick Mercer case raises need for voters to have proper recall mechanism
Commenting on the decision by Patrick Mercer MP to resign the Conservative whip today, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “MPs must be absolutely transparent about...
View ArticleThe Government’s terrible recall bill must be rejected
The Coalition has waded into the long grass this week to retrieve the recall proposals it kicked there after it came to power. However, Nick Clegg’s now revived proposals aren’t a proper right of...
View ArticlePressure builds on Coalition to act on its words over empty property rates
A leading expert in the field of Business Rates has slammed the Coalition’s half-baked proposals for empty property rate relief. Jerry Schurder, partner at a leading chartered surveyors and former...
View ArticleHighlights of YouGov arts debate with Harriet Harman
Earlier in the month, at an event organised by YouGov in association with the Free Word Centre, I debated the issue of taxpayer funding of the arts with Harriet Harman, Shadow Culture Secretary; Sir...
View ArticleTaxPayers’ Alliance response to the Spending Review
Responding to today’s statement by George Osborne, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “The Chancellor has announced some welcome savings which will ease the pressure on...
View ArticleHelp us Stop the Energy Swindle
Today we are launching a new campaign about rising energy family energy bills. We are urging the Government to cut energy taxes that are adding record amounts to family and business energy bills and...
View ArticleResponse to Greenpeace
Greenpeace has attacked the calculations underlying our EnergySwindle.org website and the Daily Mail report on our new campaign. They have two key objections: first that we have assumed a similar rise...
View ArticleHelp us stop an 11% hike in MPs’ pay
At the TaxPayers’ Alliance, we strongly oppose the big increase in MPs’ pay proposed by the “IPSA” quango. We have set up a petition which you can sign below to support action to scrap the proposed pay...
View ArticleTaxPayers’ Alliance responds to letter from Ed Davey
It’s great to see that our Stop the Energy Swindle campaign has unnerved the politicians and bureaucrats at the Department of Energy & Climate Change. Over the weekend we received a letter from Ed...
View ArticleGovernment spin is not convincing the experts on energy taxes
In recent months both Liberum Capital and RWE npower have estimated that the Government’s policies – which require around £150 billion in the energy sector – will lead to a roughly 30 per cent above...
View ArticleA victory for common sense and taxpayers in Kent
Kent residents were aghast last week at news that the County Council had hatched a plan to increase the amount councillors could claim for mileage by 50 per cent. The proposal was to increase the rate...
View ArticleECO programme means bigger energy bills for consumers
Government officials would like us to believe that its Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme, despite costing £1.3 billion, will have “no impact on consumer bills.” But when a major player in the...
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