The TaxPayers' Alliance | Media Coverage

BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire: Emma Boon said that local councils shouldn’t fine people for getting bin collection details wrong

media — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:17:31 +0000

BBC Radio West Midlands: Emma Boon argued that local councils shouldn’t fine people for getting bin collection details wrong

media — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:16:59 +0000

Yorkshire Post: Taxpayers funding fire officers’ subscriptions

media — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:05:17 +0000

Andrew Allison, the Alliance’s National Grassroots Co-ordinator, said: “If the CFOA is such good value, why has the largest fire authority in the country withdrawn from it?

“It obviously didn’t feel a 20 per cent hike in fees was good value for money.”

Wales Online: Police force has paid out £2.5m in compensation

media — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:03:58 +0000

Robert Oxley, campaign manager at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, called for more details of the claims to be published.

He said: “Compensation pay-outs caused by needless mistakes ends up wasting taxpayers’ money and diverts valuable resources away from the front line.

“Some compensation is inevitable, as the nature of frontline policing is that some private property might be damaged, but police chiefs must ensure that is kept to a reasonable minimum.

“Unless further details are published about the number and reasons behind pay-outs it is impossible for taxpayers to judge whether or not some cash has been squandered on large individual pay outs.”

Daily Express: EU Force New Rise in Price of Petrol

media — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:00:10 +0000

Robert Oxley, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “This is just another example of how Brussels is out of touch with the priorities of ordinary taxpayers.”

Read more here…

BBC Radio West Midlands: TPA Campaign Manager Robert Oxley argued that pay-as-you-go road pricing would be costly to introduce

media — Sun, 27 May 2012 09:19:24 +0000

Deadline News: Dads written out of NHS guide – to avoid offending gay parents

media — Sun, 27 May 2012 08:27:49 +0000

Taxpayer Scotland said the NHS should be focusing on other priorities.

Campaign manager Robert Oxley said: “It’s barmy that the NHS is wasting money reprinting guides because of a single complaint. Becoming a dad isn’t synonymous with one type of couple so it seems ridiculous to worry about changing it. The NHS has bigger priorities than prescribing how to define who wants to be called dad.”

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Daily Mail: NHS Removes word ‘Dad’ from pregnancy handbook in case it offends same sex couples

media — Sun, 27 May 2012 08:08:52 +0000

Robert Oxley, from the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘It’s barmy that the NHS is wasting money reprinting guides because of a single complaint. Becoming a dad isn’t synonymous with one type of couple so it seems ridiculous to worry about changing it.

‘The NHS has bigger priorities than prescribing how to define who wants to be called dad.’

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Fife Today: New pay role proposed for council sub-group

media — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:03:57 +0000

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Conservative Home: Philip Booth: The UK’s tax system punishes work, training, family formation and saving

media — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:51:11 +0000

Read the blog post here….

Daily Telegraph: Teachers given ‘overly generous’ severance payoffs of up to £200,000

media — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:48:07 +0000

“Taxpayers will view these payouts as overly generous packages at a time when schools are searching for savings,” said Emma Boon, campaign director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

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The Scotsman: Gerry Hassan: Subverting the free market is a laughing matter

media — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:45:36 +0000

Allister Heath, editor of City A.M. chaired the commission and claimed that it offered “the simplest, fairest, most economically efficient and transparent tax system possible”, stopping the injustice of double and triple taxation, while making little comment on widespread corporate and super-rich tax evasion (which is of course the fault of punitive state taxation).

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Evening Standard: Teachers paid six-figure sums to walk away from their jobs

media — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:57:54 +0000

Emma Boon, campaign director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “Taxpayers will view these payouts as overly generous packages at a time when schools are searching for savings.”

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Yorkshire Evening Post: Do MPs really do a good job?

media — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:15 +0000

John O’Connell is research director for the Taxpayers’ Alliance.

“It’s the same with any job, we get good value for money out of some MPs and constituents may feel they don’t get good value for money from others.

“Residents want to see their MP making a real difference in their local area, not just getting lost in the Westminster bubble.

“In terms of keeping tabs on them, if MPs don’t do a good job we can vote them out at the next election and that’s about the best measure you can get.

“There are issues with certain areas only voting for a particular party so even if an MP isn’t performing well they may not get the chop.

“What we need are local primary elections to allow the people to decide who runs for Parliament rather than it being the parties who choose.

“That way there is a real incentive there for the MP to perform for the area because it will be the people who decide if they get to stand again.

“It’s a small change and the Government said it was thinking about it before going back on the idea but it could have a huge effect on how active and engaged MPs are in their local area.

“It would also help get past the issue of some MPs in safe seats not pulling their weight and spending too much time engaged in tea room chatter at Westminster.”

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This is Kent: MP Collins is county’s top expenses claimant

media — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:52:09 +0000

A spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Alliance said: “MPs’ expenses has been and remains an emotive issue.”

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Conservative Home: Labour may have lost the election but unions are still getting subsidies and left-wingers are still running public bodies

media — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:44:38 +0000

Read the blog by Tim Montgomerie here…

Daily Express: Hate Cleric’s Lawyers are Paid £21m in Legal Aid Costs Over a Decade

media — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:42:44 +0000

Emma Boon, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said the huge amounts involved showed reform of the Legal Aid system was vital.

“At a time when budgets are under pressure, taxpayers will worry that lots of their cash has been handed to lawyers like Birnberg Peirce.”

Read the full article here…

BBC News Channel: TPA Director Matthew Sinclair said that failures to collect tax are a symptom of a broken tax system and can only be solved by radical tax reform, not by hiring more taxmen

media — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:17:29 +0000

BBC Radio Merseyside: John O’Connell said that councils in the area should try and keep the cost of public events down, and seek private funding where possible

media — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:17:16 +0000

Sky News: TPA Research Director John O’Connell said that a large amount of uncollected tax is a symptom of a broken tax system and can be solved by wholesale tax reform, not by hiring more bureaucrats

media — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:17:05 +0000