Victory for TPA in Colchester
Plans to install parking meters outside shops on a busy shopping street in Colchester were dealt a major blow last week—thanks to a local TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign. Read more...
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Further 'Stop the Energy Swindle' Street Stalls in Darlington and Birmingham
We had three more great events in the past week at Warrington, Islington, and Salisbury. Read more...
Cut Cider Tax!
The South West Taxpayers’ Alliance launched their ‘Cut Cider Tax’ campaign at the Love Food Festival at historic Dyrham Park in South Gloucestershire. Bath TPA supporters set up their stall alongside local food producers and award-winning cider makers, urging local foodies and cider lovers to sign their petition. Read more...
Salisbury sizzles in support of Stop the Energy Swindle
TPA supporters rallied outside Salisbury’s Georgian Guildhall to launch our ‘Stop the Energy Swindle’ campaign in Wiltshire’s beautiful cathedral city. Overlooking the historic Market Square, it proved a good place to chat to shoppers and market traders on a busy market day. Read more...
Meanness in Dover?
Town and parish councils invariably slip under the radar when it comes to scrutiny. Their budgets tend to be small and although in percentage terms some of the precept increases are large, in monetary terms they are rather small. Dover Town Council is a prime example of this. Read more...
TaxPayers' 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. Read more...
Cheltenham’s funny way of saving money
It’s a funny way of saving money when you dole out just over £223,000 of taxpayers’ money in order to cut £220,000 of council expenses! But that’s just how Cheltenham Borough Council (CBC) has chosen to ease out two of their senior council officers. Read more...
IPSA has compromised public trust and lost all moral authority to safeguard taxpayers’ money
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) – the body charged with administering expenses for MPs and their staff – has surpassed itself in what appears to be an effort to lose any remaining shreds of credibility. Read more...
Islington gives thumbs up to Stop the Energy Swindle campaign
Islington TPA supporters were out on one of London’s hottest days of the year so far for a local launch of our ‘Stop the Energy Swindle’ campaign. On a busy Saturday lunchtime in Highbury Barn, the attractive shopping parade in north Islington, they handed out leaflets and chatted with shoppers... Read more...
Taxpayers deserve a better deal from contractors
After the Olympic security debacle the security firm G4S, along with others, has further failed taxpayers by charging for criminal monitoring services they were not actively providing. G4S and Serco were given contracts in 2005 to electronically tag and monitor criminals. To date the Government has paid £700 million to firms... Read more...
Help 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. Read more...
NAO report on NHS waste
A new report from the National Audit Office shows that the NHS has spent an eye-watering £435 million in redundancy payments as a result of the Health and Social Care Act which came into force April of this year. As part of the new reforms, 10,000 full-time employees have left... Read more...
More 'Stop the Energy Swindle' Street Stalls
We have had a fantastic start to our 'Stop the Energy Swindle' campaign, and have held hugely successful street stalls in Bath, Canterbury, Cardiff, and Colchester. Read more...
BPA using taxpayers' money to lobby for higher parking charges
Calls for a rise in the maximum parking fine have been supported by the British Parking Association (BPA), which draws much of its funding from local authorities. Read more...
Energy Swindle Campaign heats up in Essex
Essex TPA supporters sweltered in welcome summer heat as they joined Chris Manby, new grassroots coordinator for Colchester, for our ‘Stop the Energy Swindle’ campaign. Handing out leaflets in the narrow streets of this historic market town, they explained to locals how their heating bills are fatter than they need... Read more...
Disastrous airport site receives even more taxpayers' money
The failed Sheffield City Airport is to be redeveloped with a £1.8 million taxpayer-funded loan. This comes despite current owners having being allowed to purchase the £18 million site for £1. The airport was opened in 1997 but did not attract anywhere near the expected passenger numbers – just 13,000 customers... Read more...
Thanet Council loses £3.4 million
Thanet District Council has managed to lose £3.4 million as a result of the financial collapse of TransEuropa Ferries (TEF), who operated a service from the council owned port of Ramsgate to Ostend in Belgium. Read more...
Bath supporters want to 'Stop the Energy Swindle'
The sun shone on Bath TPA supporters as they helped Chief Executive Matthew Sinclair launch our ‘Stop the Energy Swindle’ campaign in the South West. Gathering in the shadow of Bath’s beautiful Abbey, they handed out leaflets to local shoppers, telling them how they can protest at sky-high gas and... Read more...
Cut Cider Tax!
The Love Food Festival was blessed with temperatures in the high 70s—and the Taxpayers’ Alliance was at the heart of it! Urging local residents and traders to sign their petition to ‘Cut Cider Tax’, Bath TPA supporters set up their stall at historic Dyrham Park in South Gloucestershire alongside local... Read more...
Response to Greenpeace
Greenpeace has attacked the calculations underlying our EnergySwindle.org website and the Daily Mail report on our new campaign. Read more...
'Stop the Energy Swindle' Street Stalls
Grassroots supporters across the UK are helping to promote our new campaign launched this morning, 'Stop the Energy Swindle'. We have a number of street stalls planned in the next few weeks, with more in the pipeline for the rest of the summer. Read more...
Help 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 we need your help to achieve this. Read more...
COMMENT: Why not... introduce a flat tax?
I wrote for the BBC News website about why we should introduce a proportionate Single Income Tax: Read more...
Awarding yourself a £26,000 pay rise can get you in trouble
Caerphilly Council has seen two of its senior employees arrested by Avon and Somerset Police following an investigation into a number of pay rises given to executives within the local authority. Read more...