The TaxPayers' Alliance Blog

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) for failing to collect information...

The TaxPayers’ Alliance was one of 140 media organisations, campaign groups and charities to sign a joint letter to...

What is the Chancellor up to in China at the moment?

This morning George Osborne announced £3 million in funding for...

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Norman Lamb’s comments about the NHS today is that they have received coverage in...

Thank you to everyone who came to our Activist Training Day in London yesterday.

We ended up covering a wide...

What are gilts?

The sale of gilts (UK government bonds) is the primary way in which the UK government finances...

On Saturday the TaxPayers’ Alliance took to the streets of Tower Hamlets as part of our ongoing War on Waste.

Cornwall Council’s plan to impose a new “surf tax” of up to £4,000 on watersports schools is not a...

I enjoy a good upset victory as much as the next person, but the elevation of Jeremy Corbyn to the...

The Daily Mail published an article on Saturday that suggests that the 'flagship Liberal Democrat policy' of  free school...

Whitehall departments have continued to defy the laws of physics this year; it seems that when it comes to IT...

The news that the Department for Work and Pensions has been conjuring case studies from thin air to justify its...

Last Wednesday, Dia and her grassroots team went to Maidstone to speak to as many residents as possible. We encountered...

Today, Dia and her team hit the road to Maidstone, Kent to continue the

10:51 AM August 13, 2015 Paris Baker

An appeal to the valuation tribunal has significantly reduced the “rateable value” of purpose built...

A budget cut of half a billion; several thousand troops made redundant – what a perfect time for...

The European countryside is littered with big, white and expensive wind turbines, and it seems that this comes to little...

Proposal to expand the scope of the council’s refurbishment plan expected to be approved next Wednesday.

The Deal Town Council is planning to spend over £10,000 on new ceremonial robes and regalia, reports Kent...

Beautiful medieval cobble stones were ripped out of the Somerset village of Dunster to make way for plain paving. But...

The Telegraph are asking whether we might see the end of National Insurance in the near future to which...

On Monday @the_tpa hit 10,000 Twitter followers so we thought it was time for a give-away competition.

This...

The Register has reported that although the new £131m e-Referral system has recovered from the problems which forced...

Keeping politicians to their pre-election promises is never easy, but there seems to be a chink of light at Bath...

During the tenure of Sir Peter Housden, who stepped down as Permanent Secretary to the Scottish government last month, a...

The Summer Budget was a fiddly affair with sixty policies being implemented.
The value to the treasury of each policy can...

Manston Airport is an old RAF airfield on the eastern tip of Kent which, when run as an airport, loses...

A new TaxPayers' Alliance report, written by leading barrister Francis Hoar, demonstrates significant flaws in Direct Recovery of Debts legislation

Principle of...

It has come to our attention that an event headed by GovKnow is taking place in order to help...

With HSBC, the UK’s largest bank, and Standard Chartered debating whether to move their domiciles outside of the UK, the...