TPA criticises £67 million wasteful subsidy to pharmacists
TPA criticises £67 million wasteful subsidy to pharmacists Read more...
TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals £28.5 billion lost to black market alcohol, tobacco and diesel in just five years
TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals £28.5 billion lost to black market alcohol, tobacco and diesel in just five years Read more...
TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Budget 2012
TaxPayers’ Alliance reaction to Budget 2012 Read more...
Government spends £400,000 on fig trees for their offices
Government spends £400,000 on fig trees for their offices Read more...
TPA reveal excessive motoring taxes in each council area ahead of fuel vote in Commons
Just days ahead of a vote in Parliament on the subject of fuel taxes, new research from the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) shows for the first time how excessive motoring taxes affect drivers in urban, suburban and rural areas very differently. Read more...
Sustainable Development Commission credit card spending revealed
In the latest in our series uncovering spending on credit cards by Britain’s wasteful quangos, we expose £185k of spending between April 2009 and March 2011 at the Sustainable Development Commission. This is further evidence that the decision to abolish this quango was the correct one, in the process saving... Read more...
TfL Surplus Staff
The TPA has discovered that Transport for London (TfL) has been paying the salaries of dozens of staff that have been languishing in a ‘Redeployment Unit’. The unit is for employees who have no formal role but are being kept on, rather than made redundant. Read more...
Stop taxpayer funding of trade unions in Tameside
This Saturday 3 September, members of the TPA team will be joining Liam Billington, our coordinator in Tameside, Greater Manchester, for an action day. We will be meeting in the Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, at noon for a couple of hours of campaigning. We will be handing out TPA recruitment cards, and... Read more...
TPA reaction to rural broadband subsidies announcement
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that £363 million will go to rural communities across England and Scotland for investment in rural broadband. Read more...
High Speed Rail (HSR) is a Huge Spending Risk
High Speed Rail (HSR) is a Huge Spending Risk Read more...
The TaxPayers' Alliance reveals Christmas tax bill is £283 per family
The TaxPayers' Alliance reveals Christmas tax bill is £283 per family Read more...