On Friday those interested in forming the Wolverhampton TaxPayers’ Alliance gathered at Bantock House to discuss how a campaign for lower taxes and less government waste might be received in the local area. The meeting had a great turn-out with residents keen to voice their views about the pressures... Read more...
TPA Organiser for South West Surrey – Peter Webb – was yet again quoted in the Surrey Advertiser last week, commenting on our 10% Challenge to councils. He scored another hit with a letter about the NHS, fitting in nicely with our Better Government campaign. You can read the... Read more...
The News of the World ran an expose yesterday on MEPs taking advantage of their allowances. It's common knowledge that MEPs, faced with even less scrutiny than MPs in Westminster, have a sizeable gravy train at their disposal. What was really shocking about the story, other than the sheer amount... Read more...
You can download and print off our free 'Wish You Were Here' recruitment leaflet by clicking below and downloading the PDF to your computer. Click here to download the leaflet: Download tpa_a5_postcard_07.pdf Read more...
If you take the Sunday Times, you’d have noticed senior TPA Campaigner Steve Peers and his family in the Money section being interviewed on the damage government stealth taxes are doing to families all over the country. You can read Steve's comments in the article here. This... Read more...
The Independent on Sunday had a shocking report yesterday on an internal MoD document revealing the truly awful conditions our Armed Forces are forced to endure. It has emerged that not only are our soldiers housed in disgraceful slum conditions and sent to war with insufficient or unsuitable equipment, now... Read more...
Rising taxes, soaring charges, service cuts. It’s…THE GREAT BRITISH TAXPAYER RIP-OFF Download the full report (PDF) In a new report, the TaxPayers’ Alliance outlines the way that over the last decade British taxpayers have faced a huge increase in their tax bills, but at the same time, they’ve been made... Read more...
As we laid out when revealing the Cost of Crime in London last month, the TPA believes strongly in the principle and the practical benefits of giving people as much information as possible about the (mal)functioning of our public services. Crime mapping, widely used to great effect in the USA,... Read more...
There is a must-read article from Patrick O’Flynn in today’s Daily Express that reinforces our arguments in favour of small government and that there is a point at which government must realise it has to get out of civil society. O'Flynn writes that rather than admitting he was wrong... Read more...
With a spread in the local press about the launch and a brand new website now in place, it’s no wonder the new Worcester branch of the TaxPayers’ Alliance is already going from strength to strength! Since being introduced on the 21st April, the founding activists of this new... Read more...
Yesterday the Public Administration Select Committee put out a press release: "The Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) today publishes the first parliamentary assessment of the idea of “user involvement” in public services, potentially a new model for public service delivery that promises improved services and greater user satisfaction." Apparently, getting... Read more...
The Hertfordshire TPA began initially at a meeting of activists from St Albans and Hatfield and now stretches all over Hertfordshire. The group have been campaigning since last summer, building a successful Yahoo Group site and a branch with well over 100 supporters – and growing. Please join the Group... Read more...
“Let ‘em ‘ave it”, came the response to a suggestion I put to an activist over whether we should start directly lobbying local councils. Everyone I spoke to was furious when councillors in Bournemouth increased their pay in the same year they hiked Council Tax by 4.9%. Something had to... Read more...
The TaxPayers’ Alliance Grassroots Campaign holds protests in support of taxpayers taken to court over Council Tax issues. To date we have had four protests: one outside the Treasury, two in Barnet – though for different cases – and one in St Albans. Here are clips from two Council Tax... Read more...
To date we have amalgamated two regional low-tax groups into our campaigns and have three strong, county wide branches up and running as well as newly formed groups in Wolverhampton, Telford and Worcester in the West Midlands TPA. As local membership grows and participation in grassroots campaigning increases, we will... Read more...
The Norfolk branch of the TaxPayers’ Alliance came together in October 2007 through an alliance between Folk Against Council Tax (a local campaign against high Council Tax) and the TaxPayers’ Alliance. It runs a variety of campaigns, from lobbying to letter writing and recruiting to the cause. Here is our... Read more...
The TaxPayers’ Alliance grassroots campaign is where you make your voice heard. We are steadily building a strong grassroots campaign to keep an eye on those who tax, spend and waste our money. Have a read through our grassroots pages, see what our campaigners are up to and if you... Read more...
South West Surrey Organiser Peter Webb updates us on the SW Surrey TPA Campaign for April. 2nd: PW letter to MP Jeremy Hunt pointing out lack of answers to 13th Feb 5 questions and challenging his letter of 31st March with its unsubstantiated “clear policies”..This ended up with a time-limited... Read more...
The TaxPayers’ Alliance Grassroots Campaign holds protests in support of taxpayers taken to court over Council Tax issues. To date we have had four protests: one outside the Treasury, two in Barnet – though for different cases – and one in St Albans. Here are clips from two Council Tax... Read more...
One of the criteria for a job to qualify as the non-job of the week is whether we could live without it. This week, see for yourself from the Guardian Society pages: “Community Capacity Building Officer £25,320 - £31,606 pa (pay award pending) Ref: CS85 Fixed term post for 3... Read more...
The front page of the Metro newspaper today reveals that police guidance instructs rank and file police not to register car vandalism as a crime. In sharp contrast, Gwynneth Lester is fleeing the country because she faces arrest over £1,200 of unpaid Council Tax. According to local newspapers, the 59-year-old... Read more...
Hard on the heels of last week's teachers' strike, we've had news of school pupils being paid to take lessons in place of qualified teachers: "A school is paying sixth-formers as young as 16 to teach lessons instead of hiring qualified supply staff. It has put a team of 24... Read more...
Fortnightly bin collections increase fly-tipping, more than doubled over the last three years, risk becoming an environmental nuisance and pose a serious inconvenience, particularly for larger families. It has emerged, today, that the number of councils only providing fortnightly collection has been rapidly increasing: "Almost 20 million people have their... Read more...
Yesterday a WMTPA supporter forwarded some information confirming that Sandwell Council really have taken meddling to a whole new level. Whether you’re in a clothes shop or a supermarket, a bank or a shopping centre, or even ordering online, the chances are if something goes wrong you only have to... Read more...