I run a small business in Wales. The company has grown from strength to strength in the past year, and since Christmas I have even been able to create a further five jobs. The positions created have in-house management training opportunities attached, there are no formal educational requirements - just... Read more...
A new campaign has been launched by the National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) calling for local authorities to spend 50p per person per week on “culture”. Read more...
The UK does not feature in the top 10 countries for producing 'super entrepreneurs', according to a report by the Centre for Policy Studies. Read more...
MPs will today vote on the Second Reading of the HS2 Bill. The TaxPayers' Alliance has long had severe concerns about the cost and value of the HS2project, which is set to cost every family in the country well over £1,500 according to official figures. It was originally based on a very weak... Read more...
The Department for Communities and Local Government has issued a notice to five London councils warning them that Secretary of State Eric Pickles might take further steps against their council-run newspapers. Good. Read more...
We are looking for a pool of keen and enthusiastic volunteers who can spare a little time to get involved at the cutting edge of our exciting campaigns. Read more...
Islwyn Assembly Member Gwyn Price, who was only elected in 2011, has spoken less in the Chamber than any other speaker, totting up 2,269 words in one year. He represents one of the most deprived regions of the UK and his word count is even shorter than the Welsh Secretary,... Read more...
Supporters of the TPA were in Bridgend last weekend, collecting signatures against the Council's move to increase Council Tax by 4.98 per cent. Bridgend is situated roughly half way between Cardiff and Swansea on the South Wales coast, acting as a commuter town since industry in the area has gone... Read more...
TaxPayers’ Alliance activists gathered on a warm sunny day in Chelmsford last Friday to protest against high rates of council tax in Essex. Essex County Council recently froze Council Tax, but its rates are still too high. Read more...
HM Treasury is to publish analysis of the effects on economic growth of cancelling the planned rises in Fuel Duty. The estimates show that half of the foregone revenue has been recouped in various taxes as a result of the additional economic growth which occurred as a result of not... Read more...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander gave a speech this morning about the Coalition’s record on tax. He aligned the Liberal Democrats with the Coalition tax policy, pledged to raise the personal allowance of tax free income to £12,500 and indicated that a new ‘Mansion Tax’ proposal would form... Read more...
This is a question that Westminster has failed to satisfactorily answer since 2009 and now the Maria Miller saga has reignited the debate about MPs, expenses and accountability. Read more...
Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, recently paid around £2,000 to install a new lamp post. However, residents have been left dumbstruck as the post does not light up the pavement below. Read more...
For over a decade the Welsh Government has been running the NHS in Wales. Control of the NHS should have given the Welsh Government the ability to localise services and pursue policies that Welsh taxpayers really want. As a result policies such as free prescriptions have been introduced in an... Read more...
Less than a week after the TPA’s War on Waste grassroots demonstration on College Green outside Bristol City Hall, the elected Mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, has responded to Bristol TPA supporter Roy Tallis’ suggestion that there should be a cut in the number of councillors. Read more...
Teachers are on strike today. One of the reasons is their anger over pension entitlements becoming less generous after reforms become effective in April 2015. These reforms don't much affect the rights to pensions they've built up already. The changes are primarily about what additional pension rights they'll be entitled... Read more...
We can today reveal that the true scale of the liability facing taxpayers for unfunded public sector pension schemes stands at an eye-watering £1.7 trillion. This dwarfs official estimates of £1.1 trillion, and these numbers are in addition to the official National Debt. Read more...
Pont Briwet, a Grade II listed wooden bridge which crosses the River Dwyryd in Penrhyndeudraeth North Wales, has been closed since January due to safety fears. This is understandable - many of us have endured a difficult winter. This bridge was to be used until a new road and rail... Read more...
Does Bristol City Council (BCC) really need 70 elected councillors to serve its citizens? As a resident of the city and a one-time councillor, I can say this is one way of cutting the cost of local government—reduce the number of councillors—and the TPA in Bristol is campaigning to get... Read more...
Rothbury villagers in Northumberland are furious at their Parish Council for hiking its precept from £22,413 to £52,000, almost an extra pound a week on top of their Council Tax. ‘This 132 per cent increase is on top of a 50 per cent increase in the previous year,’ says one local... Read more...
Chancellor George Osborne will deliver Budget 2014 tomorrow. We published our full submission of proposals for this Budget on Thursday. Read more...
The TaxPayers' Alliance - Britain's independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes and less government waste – is seeking a talented and motivated campaign manager to take a lead in communicating the organisation’s messages to the public through the national print and broadcast media, social media and the TPA’s website. Read more...
University of Birmingham students joined our campaign to Call Time on Duty armed with our drinks coasters. After starting the day on the Edgbaston campus, the campaign soon moved and gained more momentum at one of Birmingham’s finest – The Old Joint Stock and Theatre pub. Read more...
Bristol University students packed local favourite pub The White Bear to add their support to our campaign to Call Time on Duty. Brandishing our wine mats bearing the facts about how much tax we pay on our drinks, they demanded that the Chancellor George Osborne cut the duty on wine... Read more...