Leading Bath restaurateur, Charlie Digney, proprietor of award-winning local restaurants the King William, the Garrick’s Head and Oakhill Inn, joined Bath popular bar owner Fari Nejad of Opium to support our national campaign calling for the duty on wine and spirits to be cut. Read more...
Exeter University students joined our campaign to Call Time on Duty at John Gandy’s wine bar off the cobble streets of central Exeter. With glasses of wine in their hands, they called on the Chancellor George Osborne to axe further rises in duty on wine and spirits in this country—and... Read more...
Office for Budget Responsibility economic models replicated by the Financial Times have revealed a new £20 billion black hole in the public finances. The news comes on top of the repeated deterioration in deficit forecasts since 2010 and means that the public sector would potentially continue living beyond its means... Read more...
Councils in Wales have seemingly contracted Council Tax increase fever. For the past number of weeks we have seen increases of nearly 5 per cent in a substantial number of local authorities. Unlike the majority of councils in England who have received a grant to freeze Council Tax bills, councils... Read more...
London School of Economics students raised their glasses to our Call Time on Duty campaign. In the historic George IV pub in Portugal Street, opposite the LSE, they asked the Chancellor George Osborne to cut the duty on wine and spirits in this country, some of the highest alcohol tax... Read more...
On the steps of HM Treasury, the TPA’s South West grassroots coordinator Tim Newark and Campaign Director, Robert Oxley, handed in a petition to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Petition calls on George Osborne to cut the tax on cider. The petition is part of the TPA’s general campaign... Read more...
The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee joined the growing chorus of Business Rates critics yesterday, describing the tax on business premises “not fit for purpose.” Just last week, the former Chief Executive of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy said that the “ancient” system should be reformed and “probably scrapped” because it... Read more...
Our Director, John O’Connell, has a column in today’s Daily Telegraph about Britain’s maddeningly complex tax system. Click here to continue reading Read more...
South Bucks Council recently informed local taxpayers of ‘exciting changes’ being made to their waste and recycling collection service, but one local resident is ‘excited’ in a completely different way. Read more...
At a time when the Environment Agency has been criticised over its advice and handling of the terrible floods across our country, it seems odd that it should be pursuing a burdensome and costly new level of bureaucracy. Read more...
The Government has indicated that it plans to rename National Insurance contributions as 'Earnings Tax' in a move to bring some honesty into the tax system. This is great news for which the TaxPayers' Alliance has long campaigned. And Ben Gummer MP deserves much credit for his campaigning for the... Read more...
Reacting to reports that the Government is likely to back proposals to rename National Insurance to "Earnings Tax", Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Welsh Councils are in the process of setting their budgets and many are proposing big hikes in Council Tax of up to 5 per cent. Read more...
On a rainy day at Balliol College, one of Oxford University’s oldest and most prestigious colleges, students gathered in its subterranean bar to support our Cut Cider Tax campaign. Read more...
Reacting to the report in this morning's Independent that the Government has dropped plans to allow voters to petition for a recall ballot if they feel their MP has let them down, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Students flocked to our Essex Taxpayers’ Alliance action day at the University of Essex near Colchester to support our Cut Cider Tax campaign. Read more...
Bath shopkeepers and restaurateurs are up in arms over Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) council’s dramatic rise in on-street parking charges—up by 41% in some places! Read more...
Sunderland councillor Neville Padgett has splashed out over £1,000 a year on his weekly ‘litter tours’. The Sunderland City councillor has made the 51 mile journey of every road in his Washington East ward on the lookout for litter, based in his very own car. Read more...
We are seeking to recruit a National Grassroots Coordinator to oversee our growing network of activists across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Read more...
Last October, a TaxPayers' Alliance report that I authored highlighted those councils in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire that were preventing residents from recording, blogging, and tweeting at council meetings. Eric Pickles then announced these rights would soon be enshrined in law. This is what he had to say: Read more...
With the NHS no longer being handed inflation busting budget increases, you might expect a certain amount of belt tightening. Yet the world’s fifth largest employer continues to squander cash with another eye watering pay off for a former Deputy Chief Executive who never actually left. Read more...
The TaxPayers’ Alliance in the South West set up their stall alongside local food and drink producers at Bath’s historic Farmers’ Market—the first in the country—situated under the beautiful Victorian glass and iron roof of what used to be the Green Park railway station in the centre of the city... Read more...
Reacting to the Shadow Chancellor's proposals to reintroduce the 50p rate of Income Tax, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Npower chief executive Paul Massara has said that the Government has not done enough to reduce the impact of green levies on household energy bills. Read more...