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  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
December 22, 2024 at 11:00 AM

Merry Christmas 🎅🎄

Merry Christmas 🎅🎄 View this email in your browser Merry Christmas! From everyone at the TaxPayers' Alliance, we hope you have a very merry Christmas and a prosperous new year! With be…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
December 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser It’s been quite the year Welcome to the last TaxPayers’ Alliance bulletin of 2024. To those of you who have been with us all the way through and those who joined alo…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
December 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser Counting the costs of the jobs tax The bleak outlook from Rachel Reeves’ budget came into clear focus once again this week as it was revealed that half of British bu…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
December 1, 2024 at 11:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: Policy win ✅, Tobacco 🚬, and Toilets 🚽

Weekly bulletin: Policy win ✅, Tobacco 🚬, and Toilets 🚽 View this email in your browser A win for common sense (and the TPA) The days may be dark this time of year but a ray of light shone through this week and it’s…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
November 24, 2024 at 11:00 AM

Farming 🧑‍🌾, Covid 💉, and woke police 👮

Farming 🧑‍🌾, Covid 💉, and woke police 👮 View this email in your browser The farmers strike back Three weeks on from the chancellor’s disastrous budget, and the UK’s farmers descended on Whitehall to protest Rachel R…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
November 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: Bunking bureaucrats 🦥, ideas from across the pond 🇺🇲, and goodbye Gary ⚽

Weekly bulletin: Bunking bureaucrats 🦥, ideas from across the pond 🇺🇲, and goodbye Gary ⚽ View this email in your browser Who'd have guessed? Back in May 2023, as regular readers may recall, we got wind of some stra…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
November 10, 2024 at 11:29 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser New leader, same problems Amidst the ongoing fallout from last week’s budget, the new leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, started fleshing out her top team, tho…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
November 3, 2024 at 11:00 AM

🚨Weekly bulletin - budget special🚨

🚨Weekly bulletin - budget special🚨 View this email in your browser Budget 2024 Well folks, we knew it wasn’t going to be pretty. We knew it wasn’t going to be fun. And we knew it would hurt. But I’m not sure anyone …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
October 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: write to your MP with our brand new tool ✍️

Weekly bulletin: write to your MP with our brand new tool ✍️ View this email in your browser Hold your MP to account with our new tool We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new Write to Your MP tool, a vital …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
October 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: A must listen 🔊, Death duties 🪦, and playtime for prisoners ⚽

Weekly bulletin: A must listen 🔊, Death duties 🪦, and playtime for prisoners ⚽ View this email in your browser A nation of taxpayers As promised, this week we launched our latest venture, our brand new podcast: a na…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
October 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: Jobs tax 👷, A new venture 🎙️, & some light reading 📖

Weekly bulletin: Jobs tax 👷, A new venture 🎙️, & some light reading 📖 View this email in your browser The jobs tax With the budget less than three weeks away, Westminster is awash with speculation of what might …
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October 6, 2024 at 10:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: TPA at Conservative party conference

Weekly bulletin: TPA at Conservative party conference View this email in your browser ThinkTent 2024 Another year, another Conservative party conference, another action packed ThinkTent. While the hype this year was…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
September 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: 🎉 Conferences, ⛽ Energy taxes, & ⛈️ Met money

Weekly bulletin: 🎉 Conferences, ⛽ Energy taxes, & ⛈️ Met money View this email in your browser Party (conference) time It’s that time of year again where the different parties descend on various cities across th…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
September 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: 🚶 Next steps, 👵 A widow’s tax, & 🤮 Civil service sickies

Weekly bulletin: 🚶 Next steps, 👵 A widow’s tax, & 🤮 Civil service sickies View this email in your browser Petition: Cut the national debt! This week saw two important developments where the national debt is conc…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
September 15, 2024 at 10:00 AM

🧑‍✈️Leaders, 🏥Health, and 🚗Driving

🧑‍✈️Leaders, 🏥Health, and 🚗Driving View this email in your browser Where the TPA leads… It’s not always easy to tell how effective TPA campaigns are. They can take time. But we’re pretty proud of our record. From ou…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
September 8, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Weekly bulletin: Tick tock 🕝, sin taxes 🍟, and tuition 🧑‍🎓

Weekly bulletin: Tick tock 🕝, sin taxes 🍟, and tuition 🧑‍🎓 View this email in your browser Debt clock roadshow You may have noticed that we’ve been talking quite a bit about the national debt recently, and in partic…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
September 1, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Weekly bulletin: The TPA turns twenty 🥳

Weekly bulletin: The TPA turns twenty 🥳 View this email in your browser Celebrating twenty years of the TaxPayers’ Alliance It’s been a rollercoaster twenty years for the British public. Elections, referendums, a fi…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
August 25, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Weekly bulletin: Bins 🚮, borrowing 💷, and racist buildings 🏛️ 😕

Weekly bulletin: Bins 🚮, borrowing 💷, and racist buildings 🏛️ 😕 View this email in your browser What a load of rubbish… bins Hopefully it goes without saying that, here at the TPA, we’re committed to exposing waste …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
August 18, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin: Council tax 🏠golden goodbyes 💰👋 and some recommended reading 📘

📰 Weekly bulletin: Council tax 🏠golden goodbyes 💰👋 and some recommended reading 📘 View this email in your browser Soaring council tax receipts £38.5 billion. That’s the amount the UK borrows every 101 days. It’s als…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
August 11, 2024 at 9:59 AM

A bumper week for the TPA...

A bumper week for the TPA... View this email in your browser The clock keeps on ticking In the seven days since you (hopefully) read our last weekly bulletin, the country has added almost £2.7 billion to the nationa…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
August 4, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Debt clock 🕝, activist GPs 🧑‍⚕️, and MoD waste 🪖

Debt clock 🕝, activist GPs 🧑‍⚕️, and MoD waste 🪖 View this email in your browser Debt clock In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the national debt has increased by more than £20,000.  That's why this wee…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
July 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM

Weekly bulletin: Scottish rich list 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, the BBC 📺, and birdsong 🐦‍⬛ 🎶

Weekly bulletin: Scottish rich list 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, the BBC 📺, and birdsong 🐦‍⬛ 🎶 View this email in your browser Scottish public sector rich list Regular readers will know that we’re more than happy to expose the mega pay…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
July 21, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Weekly bulletin: Covid 💉 witchcraft 🧙 and creepy crawlies 🪲

Weekly bulletin: Covid 💉 witchcraft 🧙 and creepy crawlies 🪲 View this email in your browser Was it all worth it? This week marked three years since the lifting of covid restrictions. After 18 months of government im…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
July 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser Pilgrims running riot There are very few people who would argue that public services are firing on all cylinders at the moment. From waiting on hold to speak to HMRC…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
July 7, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin The Starmer supremacy View this email in your browser Labour’s landslide After weeks of campaigning and millions of pounds being spent, the nation woke up on Friday morning to find the outcome of …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
June 30, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin A manifesto for taxpayers 🗳️ View this email in your browser Decision time Well, this is it. At time of writing there are just 92 hours until polls open. In 107 hours, polls will be closed, and we…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
June 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser Quango sick days revealed The TPA has always been forthright in calling out the sick note culture in the public sector. In the past we’ve revealed the cost of sick d…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
June 16, 2024 at 9:59 AM

Weekly bulletin: Pints 🍺 pledges 📜 and productivity 📈

Weekly bulletin: Pints 🍺 pledges 📜 and productivity 📈 View this email in your browser Our pricey pints With the Euros having kicked off on Friday, and both Scotland and England competing, it promises to be a busy st…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
June 9, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Taxes, debates, and… Dracula? View this email in your browser What will they tax next? The election campaign is now in full swing and the parties have started setting out their stalls. So far, the…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
June 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser Wasting Monet It’s safe to say that our latest research doesn’t paint a pretty picture for taxpayers. The TPA wonks have been busy exposing the vast art collections …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
May 26, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Here we go View this email in your browser Decision time After months of speculation and prevarication, on Wednesday Rishi Sunak finally took the plunge and named 4th July as election day. If curr…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
May 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin What a week View this email in your browser Whitehall wokies scrapped They say a week is a long time in politics, well it was certainly a busy one in TPA towers. Our campaign to ditch diversity d…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
May 12, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Will it ever end? View this email in your browser The 80 year high tax burden Regular readers will be very familiar with the 70 year high tax burden. Since the TPA first revealed the shocking stat…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
May 5, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser The wrong track With the fallout from the local elections continuing and recent polling largely being realised in the results, the prospects of a Labour administrati…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
April 28, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin View this email in your browser The price of security? With conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, the Houthis targeting shipping lanes, and sabre rattling in Asia, it’s clear the world isn’t qui…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
April 21, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin The sick man of Europe? View this email in your browser The sick man of Europe? For a long time now, the TPA has been calling out the sick note culture in the public sector, with data regularly sh…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
April 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM

🚨 Special bulletin - Town Hall Rich List 2024 🚨

🚨 Special bulletin - Town Hall Rich List 2024 🚨 How much is YOUR council boss getting? View this email in your browser Town Hall Rich List 2024 This week, we released the 17th edition of our Town Hall Rich List, re…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
April 7, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Who are the millionaire GPs...? View this email in your browser Millionaire GPs There are two certainties in life: death and taxes, so the saying goes. But has a third now been added - the impossi…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
March 31, 2024 at 9:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Wacky and weird View this email in your browser The curious case of government grants Digging through spreadsheets is something of a TPA speciality. Buried in all that data are often the things th…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
March 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin City hall salaries REVEALED! View this email in your browser Khan’s fat cats With impeccable timing, on the same day that the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launched his reelection campaign we relea…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
March 17, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Stonewall subsidy REVEALED View this email in your browser The woke state It was a double whammy from the TPA this week exposing the cost for taxpayers of the woke agenda. Kicking things off, a T…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
March 10, 2024 at 10:59 AM

🚨 Budget special 🚨

🚨 Budget special 🚨 Was that it? View this email in your browser Budget 2024 After months of rumour and speculation, on Wednesday Jeremy Hunt finally took to the despatch box to deliver his budget. Despite there bei…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
March 3, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Back on the road View this email in your browser Fighting the Pembrokeshire tax hike This week, we took our campaigning to the streets of Milford Haven, Wales. Residents of Pembrokeshire face the …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
February 25, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Room to manoeuvre View this email in your browser Hunt’s headroom The chancellor received a boost from the ONS this week as new figures revealed that he’s got an extra £9.2 billion to play with. T…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
February 18, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin They can’t say we didn’t warn them View this email in your browser It’s time to act In a surprise to almost no one (except perhaps the government), this week we had confirmation that the UK econom…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
February 11, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin 🚨 4.5 million MORE taxpayers! View this email in your browser The surging number of income tax payers New research from the TPA eggheads has revealed the shocking surge in the number of income tax…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
February 4, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin What Jeremy should do 🤔 View this email in your browser How to cut the tax burden This week, we published our submission to the treasury for what we think Jeremy Hunt should include in his budget …
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
January 28, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin 🚨 New research 🚨 View this email in your browser Why tax cuts matter With many commentators and policy makers still doubting the need for tax cuts, despite the record tax burden, the TPA’s researc…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
January 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Back our new campaign! View this email in your browser Cut income tax now! This week, we launched our latest campaign, calling on the chancellor to give hard-pressed taxpayers a break and cut inco…
  TaxPayers' Alliance · [email protected]
January 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM

📰 Weekly bulletin

📰 Weekly bulletin Tax cuts are on the horizon for 2024 View this email in your browser Tax cuts matter As ministers trumpeted the national insurance cut that came into effect last weekend and GDP stats for November…