Today the TaxPayers' Alliance can reveal that clinical staff at the Mid-Staffordshire and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB) NHS Trusts were awarded more than £7 million in "Clinical Excellence Awards," whilst official inquiries found that patient care was seriously deficient - leading to shocking patient care and even unnecessary... Read more...
Responding to the election result, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive, said: "Voters faced an important decision at this election: sticking with a party which recognises that the country has to live within its means; or plumping for a party which paid lip-service to deficit reduction but wouldn't admit its catastrophic role... Read more...
Responding to Labour's commitment to exempt first time buyers from Stamp Duty on homes purchased for less than £300,000, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive, said: Read more...
Responding to the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) analysis of the party manifestos, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to the launch of the Conservative manifesto today, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to the launch of the Labour Party manifesto, and the announcement of a "Budget Responsibility Lock," Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to the news that the Conservatives plan to increase the Inheritance Tax family home threshold to £1 million, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive, said: Read more...
Responding to the House of Lords Economics Affairs Committee report, The Economics of High Speed 2, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to the Budget statement given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
On this morning's The Andrew Marr Show Ed Balls was challenged on our Spending Plan, with Andrew Marr citing our proposal to abolish entire government departments in a discussion on the steps needed to balance the books. Read more...
The TaxPayers' Alliance today calls on all political leaders to inject a dose of honesty into the pre-election debate about future spending cuts, with the publication of The Spending Plan. Read more...
TaxPayers' Alliance calls for Real Recall in light of Rifkind and Straw allegations Responding to reports in the media that two prominent MPs have allegedly been caught in "cash for access" scandals, Andy Silvester, Campaign Director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to David Cameron's expected commitment to maintain universal pensioner benefits such as free bus passes and TV licences, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
New research from the TaxPayers' Alliance exposes the scale of inefficiency in Whitehall departments and demonstrates losses of £5.1 billion in 2013/14. Read more...
Responding to the Public Accounts Committee's report on the role of large accountancy firms in tax avoidance, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to the Prime Minister's speech today on his taxation policies in a potential second term, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Reacting to the news that the Government plans to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "International evidence shows that plain packs are not having the desired impact on public health, so this illiberal measure is simply another victory for the nanny... Read more...
Chancellor will bring legislation to House today that essentially copies Alistair Darling's Fiscal Responsibility Act, which set deficit reduction targets in law Then-Shadow Chancellor Osborne was right to call legislation "vacuous and irrelevant" at the time, but is now bringing it back in the form of the Charter for Budget Responsibility for his own political... Read more...
Responding to the Prime Minister's speech on the nation's finances, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
Responding to speeches by the Chancellor and the Prime Minister on the importance of cutting the deficit, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: Read more...
No party has credible plan for finding necessary savings Current plans would see spending return to 2008 levels, not 1930 levels Reducing spending to around a third of national income would make us comparable to Australia and Switzerland Read more...
Welcome victory for TaxPayers' Alliance Stamp Out Stamp Duty campaign, as the burden of this pernicious tax on most homebuyers is reduced The deficit remains too high, however, and the Chancellor failed to address this elephant in the room with the detail taxpayers deserve More fiddly tax measures will create further complexity Read more...
George Osborne will this week deliver the final Autumn Statement of this Parliament. He should use the opportunity to declare a real War on Waste, going further and faster inreal deficit reduction rather than political grandstanding. He should also help secure the recovery by speeding up threshold changes to the personal allowance... Read more...
The World Bank will decide next month whether to re-establish taxpayer-underwritten loans to Argentina after international coalition led by United Kingdom and United States saw them suspended in 2012, marking victory for the TaxPayers' Alliance's Stop Funding Argentina campaign Read more...