The TaxPayers’ Alliance has been an active participant in the media and public debate over issues ranging from taxation to public waste.
This archive contains the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s recently issued press releases, organised by date.
10 May 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals the 2,525 council staff earning more than £100,000
06 May 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance responds to the Queen’s Speech
26 April 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Public Accounts Committee report on tax avoidance
09 April 2013 : TaxPayers’ Alliance exposes £1.1 billion tax bombshell of Empty Property Rates
21 March 2013: Budget 2013 takes total number of Coalition tax rises to over 400
20 March 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Budget 2013
17 March 2013: More Britons believe the moon landings were faked than think that taxes are too low
07 March 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance urges David Cameron to cut burdensome taxes
06 March 2013: How the Government burns our money: inefficiency and wasteful spending costs taxpayers as much as £140 billion a year
26 February 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance launches “Mash Beer Tax” beermats as public urge MPs to end beer duty escalator via www.MashBeerTax.org
20 February 2013: 28,754 town hall middle managers cost us nearly £2 billion a year
12 February 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance: Welfare can’t be an alternative to work
06 February 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance: Despite welcome cut to EU Budget, British taxpayers still lose out
06 February 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance: Focus of RBS bosses and Ministers should be paying back taxpayers
29 January 2013: Revealed: The Coalition’s 299 tax rises
23 January 2013: TPA responds to David Cameron’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos
22 January 2013: CPS crackdown will do nothing to fix our broken tax code
14 January 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Government pensions announcement
10 January 2013: TPA slams DCLG Select Committee plan to hike councillors’ allowances
09 January 2013: TaxPayers’ Alliance gives its verdict on the Coalition’s audit of its promises
30 December 2012: Each ‘bobby on the beat’ costs nearly £800,000 a year
24 December 2012: British taxpayers vote for Mark Reckless MP and Ed Davey MP as their Pin-Up and Pinhead of the Year
19 December 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance welcomes axeing of pensions for councillors
18 December 2012: TPA Reaction to Welsh Government’s plans to buy Cardiff Airport
05 December 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance responds to George Osborne’s Autumn Statement
01 December 2012: Minimum Alcohol Pricing would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds every year
30 November 2012: Welsh MP demanding BBC transparency scoops Pin-Up of the Month award; Boston councillor is TPA Pinhead of the Month
18 November 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance shows how to abolish National Insurance within five years
09 November 2012: Jet Set DECC: Department of Energy and Climate Change spends £1.5 million on 3,496 flights
05 November 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance joins forces with retailers in new campaign to demand a freeze in business rates
02 November 2012: Denis MacShane’s disgraceful abuse of taxpayers’ money underlines urgent need for recall mechanism
31 October 2012: Taxpayers fund trade unions to the tune of £113 million
25 October 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance responds to today’s GDP figures
19 October 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance responds to Saturday’s TUC demonstration
17 October 2012: Whitehall overspending on office space is costing taxpayers millions
05 October 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance welcomes Cabinet Office’s crackdown on union facility time
03 October 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance slams Department for Transport over £40 million franchise fiasco
24 September 2012: MP and Mayoral candidate join TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign against Bristol City Council’s proposed Workplace Parking Levy
18 September 2012: Ofcom pays out millions in redundancies while hiring hundreds of new staff
13 September 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals Whitehall still paying over the odds for basics like A4 paper and energy
06 September 2012: Public sector bodies failing to control taxpayer-funded trade union time
03 September 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance welcomes David Davis’s call for implementation of its tax reform proposals
31 August 2012: Nick Clegg branded ‘Pinhead of the Month’ by TPA as Labour MP claims Pin-Up gong
29 August 2012: Clegg’s emergency wealth tax slammed as a “dead end” by TaxPayers’ Alliance
29 August 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals highest and lowest paid councillors in the UK
23 August 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance calls on public sector bodies to cut £13.5 million spend at top PR and marketing agencies
21 August 2012: New fuel tax stands at forecourts across the country show the true cost of taxes on petrol and diesel
14 August 2012: North East councils’ flights exposed: councils spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on jet-setting
01 August 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance names and shames the ministers increasing (and decreasing) the size of their Whitehall empires
13 July 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance says facility time consultation must end the scandalous taxpayer subsidy to unions
11 July 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals substantial rise in council staff drawing pensions compared to those paying in
30 June 2012: TPA supports call for investigation into Libor Rate fixing and the cost of the bank bailout
29 June 2012: Dr Liam Fox MP: “Britain, the Euro and the EU”
29 June 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance announces June’s Pin-Up and Pinhead of the Month
26 June 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance welcomes Fuel Duty freeze but says Government should go further
25 June 2012: New TaxPayers’ Alliance book: The EU in a Nutshell
21 June 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance calls for comprehensive tax reform to ensure everyone pays their fair share
15 June 2012: Taxpayers fund environmentalist campaigns through £75m EU programme
13 June 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign to stop funding Argentina backed by Nigel Adams MP
31 May 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance announces May’s Pin-Up and Pinhead of the Month
21 May 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance and Institute of Directors publish comprehensive plan for growth
20 May 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals cost of collecting tax has barely fallen in over 50 years
11 May 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance and Institute of Directors to announce final recommendations of 2020 Tax Commission
10 May 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to strikes and information on pensions
25 April 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance in Grantham campaigning against Fuel Duty increase
25 April 2012: Town Hall Rich List 2012
20 April 2012: TPA criticises £67 million wasteful subsidy to pharmacists
13 April 2012: TPA reveals £54 billion black hole in council pension schemes
9 April 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals £28.5 billion lost to black market alcohol, tobacco and diesel in just five years
21 March 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Budget 2012
06 March 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance backs calls to cut Fuel Duty
03 March 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance criticise Redcar and Cleveland over Council Tax
29 February 2012: Councils in the North West wrong to hike Council Tax
23 February 2012: Chesterfield, Leicester and Nottingham councils wrong to hike Council Tax
23 February 2012: North East councils wrong to hike Council Tax
23 February 2012: Kent councils wrong to hike Council Tax
23 February 2012: Brighton & Hove council wrong to hike Council Tax
23 February 2012: York & Richmondshire councils wrong to hike Council Tax
14 February 2012: Government spends £400,000 on fig trees for their offices
8 February 2012: Hampshire councils’ flights spending
30 January 2012: Average family pays £656,000 in tax over their lifetime
25 January 2012: £1 in every £5 of Council Tax goes on council pensions
18 January 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance finds increase in number of middle managers at Midlands councils
13 January 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals incredible credit card spending at Scottish Enterprise
11 January 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign to end taxpayer funding of trade unions gathers momentum
10 January 2012: TaxPayers’ Alliance: Economic case for HS2 isn’t credible
6 January 2012: British Council’s multi-million pound credit card spending revealed
30 December 2011: Taxpayers will have to work until 26 July to pay for the cost of government in 2012 – three more days than in 2007
20 December 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance responds to Public Accounts Committee report on HMRC tax disputes with big companies
14 December 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance estimates 7,852 council staff suspended for 2,500 working years
8 December 2011: Northern Ireland councils STILL paying staff high mileage rates
6 December 2011: TPA sets out powers PM should bring home from European Council
30 November 2011: Information on public sector strikes, pensions and unions
29 November 2011: TPA reaction to Autumn Financial Statement
28 November 2011: New research reveals more former civil servants drawing a pension than paying in
25 November 2011: Taxpayers fund trade unions to the tune of £113 million a year
18 November 2011: TPA attacks carbon floor price as industrial masochism
4 November 2011: TPA launches major tax transparency campaign: Pioneering smartphone tax app and report shows true cost of purchases
2 November 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to London Cyberspace Conference
2 November 2011: Sustainable Development Commission credit card spending revealed
28 October 2011: TPA reveals October’s ‘Pin-Up’ and ‘Pinhead’ of the Month
27 October 2011: Midlands’ Councils Flights
21 October 2011: TPA calls for National Insurance to be scrapped, to stop future HMRC fiascos and to promote growth
13 October 2011: Major analysis of NHS reveals nearly 12,000 unnecessary deaths a year
30 September 2011: TPA name inaugural Pin-Up and Pinhead of the Month
27 September 2011: TfL Surplus Staff
16 September 2011: The £28bn hidden cost of High Speed Rail
14 September 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals union fat cats
3 September 2011: Stop taxpayer funding of trade unions in Tameside
25 August 2011: £27.4 billion not collected by the taxman
17 August 2011: New book exposes the crippling cost of climate change policy and the special interests that profit most
16 August 2011: TPA reaction to rural broadband subsidies announcement
15 August 2011: New book finds green taxes are excessive by over £500 per family
27 July 2011: Jonathan Isaby joins growing TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign team
28 June 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance reveal Trade Union Rich List
24 June 2011: Public support billions of extra spending cuts to foreign aid, high speed rail and trade union funding
21 June 2011: TPA reaction to independent report on high speed rail
21 June 2011: New TPA videos ask ‘Why are the Government taxing the poor to pay for a rich man’s train?’
16 June 2011: TPA learns Royal Mail kept 287 surplus staff on payroll
4 June 2011: Whitehall’s £25m on taxpayer funded credit cards
26 May 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance uncovers millions spent by BBC and S4C on private healthcare
20 May 2011: Morley’s sentence is “justice for taxpayers”
14 May 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance – We Rallied Against Debt
13 May 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance attending Rally Against Debt 14th May
12 May 2011: ‘Cancel High Speed Rail’ said: Green Party; RAC Foundation; Countryside Alliance; AGAHST; TaxPayers’ Alliance
10 May 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance verdict on the Coalition 1 year on
20 April 2011: Police authorities spend over £1m on publications
15 April 2011: The world’s fastest speaker reads the tax code
14 April 2011: Council staff claim £427 million for mileage
7 April 2011: TPA reaction to former MP Elliot Morley guilty plea
31 March 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Jim Devine sentence
30 March 2011: The Truth About High Speed Rail Capacity
23 March 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Budget 2011
17 March 2011: Town Hall Rich List 2011
10 March 2011: Business leaders and economic commentators attack HS2 proposal
2 March 2011: HS2 will cost four jobs for every one it creates
28 February 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance highlights incredible cost of HS2 project
24 February 2011: Schools spent £293 million on supply teachers
17 February 2011: Shocking disparity in number of bins
11 February 2011: Individual tax guides are longer than War and Peace
10 February 2011: TPA reaction to Eric Illsley sentencing
10 February 2011: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to conviction of former MP Jim Devine
4 February 2011: High Speed Rail (HSR) is a Huge Spending Risk
28 January 2011: Soaps, celebrities and the fair tax debate
25 January 2011: TPA reaction to conviction of Lord Taylor of Warwick
25 January 2011: TPA responds to ONS debt and growth figures
20 January 2011: Motorists are being throttled by excessive taxes
14 January 2011: A meeting of minds to map out the future of tax
11 January 2011: TPA reaction to Eric Illsley conviction
7 January 2011: TPA reaction to sentencing of David Chaytor
22 December 2010: Pass the salt
15 December 2010: TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to MPs’ expenses latest
9 December 2010: The TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals Christmas tax bill is £283 per family
2 December 2010: New research on taxpayer funded environmentalism
