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Articles about the TaxPayers' Alliance

The following list of links to articles about the TaxPayers' Alliance is no longer maintained but kept for archive purposes.

• Big business group rattled by UNISON video – Chris Bartter, Unison Scotland, 16 March 2010
• Taxpayers’ Alliance targets local government pensions – Mike McNabb, Outside Left, 9 March 2010
• Latest TPA report on the LGPS – Tom Powdrill, Labour and Capital, 6 March 2010
• BBC: TaxPayers’ Alliance isn’t an ‘impartial body’ – John Prescott, Go Fourth, 5 January 2010
• Review: Ten Years On - Britain Without the EU – Joe Litobarski, 21st Century European, 1 January 2010
• The top left-wing campaign organisations of 2009 – Sunny Hundal, Liberal Conspiracy, 30 December 2009
• TPA troubles – Tom Powdrill, Labour and Capital, 30 December 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance charitable arm under tax investigation – Robert Booth, Guardian, 29 December 2009
• Merry Taxmas, TPA – John Prescott, LabourList, 21 December 2009
• Tory tax allies ‘subsidised’ by the taxpayer – Robert Booth, The Guardian, 21 December 2009
• TaxPayers Alliance accidentally show we need more eco-taxes – Tom Chance, Tom's Blog, 17 December 2009
• The Express’ reliable sources – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 10 December 2009
• The lack of repeats on prime time BBC1 over Xmas – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 10 December 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance in ‘not totally wrong’ shock – Owen K, The Third Estate, 6 December 2009
• Transphobia in the (Tory) Taxpayer’s Alliance – Uncommon Sense, 5 December 2009
• A few comments on Matt Sinclair’s article – Vino S, My Political Blog, 4 December 2009
• The Now Show: Marcus Brigstocke lampoons TPA – Radio 4, 4 December 2009
• Express repeats repeats story – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 3 December 2009
• Pre-PBR silliness – Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK, 3 December 2009
• Bridging the political divide… – Guy Aitchison, Power2010, 1 December 2009
• The Non-Taxpayers Alliance – Sunder Katwala, Next Left, 30 November 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance and Mail team up to attack BBC – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 23 November 2009
• Have the Taxpayers’ Alliance messed up? – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 20 November 2009
• Truth behind TaxPayers’ Alliance’s EU attack ad – Shamik Das, Left Foot Forward, 20 November 2009
• Taking politics to the big screen – Mark Wallace, Total Politics, 19 November 2009
• TPA more “out of touch” than the Archbishop – Joss Garman, Left Foot Forward, 17 November 2009
• Being a good citizen? It’s just not British – Chris Addison, Evening Standard, 11 November 2009
• The TaxPayers’ Alliance jumps the duck – Jonathan Calder, Liberal England, 9 November 2009
• TPA update – John Prescott, Go Fourth, 6 November 2009
• It must be opposite day – Nick Barlow, What You Can Get Away With, 28 October 2009
• Express unveils plan so secret it doesn’t exist – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 28 October 2009
• Warren Buffet on tax: a gaping chasm between left and right – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 28 October 2009
• A temporary friendship? – Keith Flett, Morning Star, 25 October 2009
• The anglo-saxon model continues its slow demise – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 23 October 2009
• Rail cuts and more roads would be a nightmare for drivers – Campaign for Better Transport, 20 October 2009
• TPA @ YBF? WTF! – John Prescott, Go Fourth, 19 October 2009
• Conservatives repeat TaxPayers’ Alliance distortion on local authority pensions – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 15 October 2009
• Private v public sector pay – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 14 October 2009
• The TaxPayers’ Alliance and the BBC – Jonathan Baldwin, A Word In Your Ear, 14 October 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance? Not in our name – Sunder Katwala, Guardian, 14 October 2009
• Say it again, say it often: the public sector is paid less – Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 13 October 2009
• Tax critics’ accounts – Clifford Singer, Guardian Letters, 12 October 2009
• John Prescott says tax lobby group is Tory front – Robert Booth, Guardian, 11 October 2009
• Parlez-vous francais? – PoliticalHackUK, 11 October 2009
• Non-taxpayers alliance – Paul Flynn MP, 10 October 2009
• Taxpayers Alliance: a case study of poor journalism – Matthew Cain, 10 October 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance director is not alone in benefitting from the EU – Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK, 10 October 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance director plays no UK tax – Political Scrapbook, 10 October 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance: the media’s friend – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 10 October 2009
• TPA - The Campaign for a Tory Government – John Prescott, Go Fourth, 10 October 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance admits director doesn’t pay British tax – Robert Booth, Guardian, 9 October 2009
• Refuting the TaxPayers’ Alliance on ‘cap and trade’ (Part 2) – Joss Garman, Left Foot Forward, 7 October 2009
• The importance of ‘interventions’ to drive a left agenda – Sunny Hundal, Pickled Politics, 7 October 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance’s US scare tactics uncovered – Joss Garman, Left Foot Forward, 7 October 2009
• Means-testing child benefits will hit the poor, not the rich – Kate Green, Guardian, 30 September 2009
• Where is the junkie rights movement? – Ewan Hoyle, Ewan's Liberal Musings, 28 September 2009
• TaxPayers Alliance at it again – A Change of Personnel, 27 September 2009
• TPA get stung again over inaccurate figures…. – Mick Fealty, Slugger O'Toole, 25 September 2009
• Labour spends 25.2 TRILLION on quangos, almost – Jamie Sport, The Daily Quail, 18 September 2009 (Cross-posted to Liberal Conspiracy)
• Right-wing ranters would tax the patience of a saint – Kevin Maguire, Tribune, 18 September 2009
• Unions, the TPA and research – Tom Powdrill, Labour and Capital, 17 September 2009
• Mail’s quango lies – Shamik Das, Left Foot Forward, 17 September 2009
• What has the TPA got against molecules, atoms, stars and space? – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 17 September 2009 (See also More on the case for science)
• TPA utterly abandons the interest of taxpayers on heroin prescription issue – Ewan Hoyle, Ewan's Liberal Musings, 16 September 2009
• TPA concede higher rate pensions tax relief is ‘problem’ – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 16 September 2009
• The Taxpayers Alliance hit back! – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 16 September 2009
• Public Spending & the ‘Crazy People’ Camp – Duncan's Economic Blog, 16 September 2009
• Parents fight to save Sure Start – Amelia Gentleman, Guardian, 16 September 2009
• Is this the end for Sure Start? – Tom Clark, Guardian, 16 September 2009
• This is the Taxpayers’ Alliance. This is the Taxpayers’ Alliance on drugs. – Matthew Taylor, MTPT, 15 September 2009
• Public spending cuts: ineffective, unnecessary, dangerous – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 15 September 2009 (Also see revised version at Liberal Conspiracy)
• In defence of Sure Start – Will Straw, Left Foot Forward, 15 September 2009
• The Taxpayers’ Alliance starts barking at the moon – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 14 September 2009
• Taking taxpayers for a ride – Daniel Coysh, Morning Star, 13 September 2009
• Cameron’s basic error will cost this country dearl – Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 11 September 2009
• Decent pensions for all – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 9 September 2009
• Why don’t pension critics attack the fat-cats? – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 9 September 2009
• EU’s €3.4bn for diplomacy is value for money – Jon Worth, Left Foot Forward, 6 September 2009
• Why is there a need for a “Big Brother Watch” campaign by the TaxPayers’ Alliance? – Spy Blog, 6 September 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance: a case of Web 2.0 hypocrisy? – Mark Pack, Liberal Democrat Voice, 4 September 2009
• Trying to engage with the Taxpayers’ Alliance – Simon Dickson, Puffbox, 3 September 2009
• “Taxpayers don’t want Web 2.0!” – Alex Foster, Liberal Democrat Voice, 3 September 2009
• Taxpayers Alliance Leave an Open Goal – Andreas Paterson, Andreas' Blog, 17 August 2009
• Why has the British MSM forsaken their vital ‘crap detectors’? – Mick Fealty, Slugger O'Toole, 17 August 2009
• Why are the Taxpayers’ Alliance quoted so often? – Mark Reckons, 17 August 2009
• Who ya gonna call? TaxPayers Alliance – MacGuffin, Tabloid Watch, 14 August 2009
• Celebrating 100 years of Liberals fighting the Taxpayers’ Alliance – James Graham, Social Liberal Forum, 12 August 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance: Easily Shocked – Spinwatch, 6 August 2009
• Who do the Tax Payers’ Alliance speak for? – Chris West, PR Week, 5 August 2009
• The Taxpayer’s Alliance and GP’s pay: incompetent, malicious, or both – Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK, 5 August 2009
• Taxpayers Alliance and Tory funders part 2 – Tom Powdrill, Labour and Capital, 5 August 2009
• The Taxpayers Alliance and Tory funders – Tom Powdrill, Labour and Capital, 5 August 2009
• How TPA’s ‘dodgy dossier’ separated the smart mob from the cut and paste brigade… – Mick Fealty, Slugger O'Toole, 4 August 2009
• Pressure group demands a ban on public bodies hiring lobbyist – Robbie Dinwoodie, The Herald, 4 August 2009
• Shorter Taxpayers’ Alliance – Don Paskini, Liberal Conspiracy, 4 August 2009
• Taxpayers Alliance’s cooked up research.. – Mick Fealty, Slugger O'Toole, 4 August 2009
• Rubbish from TaxPayers’ Alliance – European Information Association, 1 August 2009
• A Criticism of the Taxpayer’s Alliance’s “Tax and Entepreneurship” – Andreas' Blog, 30 July 2009
• Our regressive tax system – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 30 July 2009
• Inheritance and Entrepreneurship Fail – Left Outside, 29 July 2009
• The Taxpayer’s Alliance needs an accountant – Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK, 29 July 2009
• Is This The Most Stupid Headline Ever? – Martin Bright, The Spectator, 29 July 2009
• 50p tax rate: the Taxpayers Alliance speaks for the minority (as usual) – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 28 July 2009
• How to start a political correctness scare – Splintered Sunrise, 12 July 2009
• Right-whingers and Newsnight – Don Paskini, Liberal Conspiracy, 10 July 2009
• Daily Mail wants Nigerian criminals to remain in Britain – Jamie Sport, Liberal Conspiracy, 10 July 2009
• The clamour to cut public sector pay is based on myth – Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 7 July 2009
• Tackling the Taxpayer’s Alliance – Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK, 23 June 2009
• Transparency and the TPA – Anton Vowl, The Enemies of Reason, 22 June 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance: MPs should be bad employers – Mark Pack, Liberal Democrat Voice, 21 June 2009
• Separating the wheat from the chaff – Peter Black, Freedom Central, 21 June 2009
• Paying tax for FOI – Martin Rosenbaum, BBC, 27 May 2009
• Jean Lambert - or J P Floru? – Re-elect Jean, 26 May 2009
• Gamechangers and the futility of strategy – Never Trust a Hippy, 19 May 2009
• How to breathe in an anti-politics atmosphere – Fraser Nelson, Spectator, 18 May 2009 (Leaked memo from former TPA Campaign Director - how the right hopes to capitalise on the MPs' expenses scandal)
• The great myth of public service – Steve Richards, Independent, 12 May 2009
• Flying off the handle – rossinisbird, 3 May 2009
• Tories take on the TPA – Local Government Chronicle, 23 April 2009
• It’s tough at the top – Local Government Chronicle, 23 April 2009
• Be bold, Chancellor, and you could be our Lloyd George – Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 21 April 2009
• £15 billion efficiency savings? Where? – TUC Touchstone Blog, 20 April 2009
• Public sector “non-jobs”: The truth – Labourhome, 19 April 2009
• Pay inequality and the public sector – TUC Touchstone Blog, 18 April 2009
• What smeargate tells us about Labour’s relations with the press – Paul Evans, Common Endeavour, 17 April 2009
• Police Caution – Absolvitor: Scots Law Online, 3 April 2009
• The real pensions divide is between the rich and poor – Matt Smith, Scotland on Sunday, 29 March 2009
• A Bit of Comic Relief from the TPA – Unity, Liberal Conspiracy, 17 March 2009
• It’s official: Taxpayers Alliance are conservatives – Sunder Katwala, Next Left, 17 March 2009
• Taxpayers alliance outed as conservative partisans (surprise, sensation!) – Sunder Katwala, Next Left, 15 March 2009 (With a shorter version at Liberal Conspiracy: Taxpayers' Alliance exposed!)
• Dishonest Taxpayers’ Alliance again miss the point – Richard Corbett MEP, 11 March 2009
• The TaxPayers Alliance and pension politics – Tom P, Common Endeavour, 10 March 2009
• Dumbest TPA claim of the week – Labour and Capital, 7 March 2009
• The TPA and ‘pensions dictatorship’ – Labour and Capital, 7 March 2009
• The Conservative Enemy: One - the Taxpayers’ Alliance – LabourList, 6 March 2009
• Don’t blame the public sector for catching the fat cats’ virus – Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 3 March 2009
• Direct, and other, Payments – The Local Government Officer, 3 March 2009
• LGA hits out at pension claims – LocalGov, 2 March 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance gets it wrong - again – Unison, 27 February 2009
• TaxPayers’ Alliance: Insidious anarchists or dangerous dictators? – Daniel Moylan, ConservativeHome, 25 February 2009 (More Tory fall-out – see also Not all cars and parties in the Royal Borough. Links via Tom.)
• These rottweilers do the work of the Tories for them – Polly Toynbee, Guardian, 10 February 2009
• The Other Taxpayers’ Alliance – Luke Akehurst, 10 February 2009
• Polly attacks the TPA – Labour and Capital, 10 February 2009
• Toff Cameron’s huge Tory team of all the no-talents – Kevin Maguire, Tribune, 7 February 2009
• Councils bribing tenants shock! – Nearly Legal, 7 February 2009
• Leading Lights on Lower Corporate Taxes – Andreas' Blog, 4 February 2009
• Taxpayers’ Alliance gives green light to corporate tax avoiders – LabourList, 3 February 2009
• More evasion from the so-called ‘Tax-Payers Alliance’ – Never Trust a Hippy, 3 February 2009
• The Children’s Society vs the Taxpayer’s Alliance – Don Paskini, 3 February 2009
• All those fat cat teachers – Phil Taylor, 2 February 2009
• Crowdsourcing – Never Trust a Hippy, 30 January 2009
• London Councils warns on misleading Taxpayers’ Alliance report – London Councils, 23 January 2009
• Gallivating around the borough – Don Paskini, 10 January 2009
• More free advice for the Taxpayer’s Alliance – Don Paskini, 22 December 2008
• Helping the TaxPayers’ Alliance – Don Paskini, 19 December 2008
• A*‘s for Everyone Except the Taxpayers Alliance – Andreas' Blog, 17 December 2008
• TaxPayers’ Alliance challenged on LBC radio – Liberal Conspiracy, 17 December 2008 (This is reprinted from here, but adds interesting comments from Sunder Katwala and others)
• The TaxPayers’ Alliance is unfairly rubbishing good councils like Solihull – Ken Meeson, ConservativeHome, 15 December 2008 (This article and the comments below it give an insight into Tory splits over the TPA; see also the TPA's response and subsequent comments)
• The Taxpayers Alliance attack council PR – TUC Touchstone Blog, 12 December 2008
• The legitimate union voice – TUC Stronger Unions Blog, 10 December 2008
• Pensions envy – Labour and Capital, 10 December 2008
• Challenge the anti-tax lobby – Clifford Singer, Compass, 2 December 2008
• Public Sector Pensions – Nigel Stanley, TUC Touchstone Blog, 28 November 2008
• TaxPayers’ Alliance fact check – Don Paskini, 26 November 2008
• More gutter journalism from the Taxpayers’ Alliance – NHS Blog Doctor, 24 November 2008
• 45p: a revival of Labour’s better instincts – John Harris, The Guardian, 24 November 2008
• Maybe we need a Real Taxpayers’ Alliance? – Labour and Capital, 3 November 2008
• More TPA rubbish on pensions – Labour and Capital, 3 November 2008
• Taxpayers’ Alliance is a sign of things to come – Alex Hawkes, Accountancy Age, 9 October 2008
• The No. 1 Tax Detective Agency – Ross Clark, The Spectator, 8 October 2008
• They Just Don’t Get It #1: the TaxPayers’ Alliance – Adam Lent, TUC Touchstone Blog, 7 October 2008
• TPA says don’t even join the LGPS – Labour and Capital, 29 August 2008
• Feeble Labour folds in the face of anti-tax paranoia – Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 26 August 2008
• How the Taxpayers’ Alliance is making headlines – Jamie Merrill, The Independent, 4 August 2008
• Why are the Taxpayers Alliance lying about crime? – Don Paskini, 4 July 2008
• In defence of inheritance tax – Stuart White, New Statesman, 15 April 2008
• A challenge to the TaxPayers’ Alliance – NHS Blog Doctor, 30 March 2008
• Who are the TaxPayers’ Alliance? – Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 17 March 2008
• Who are the TaxPayers’ Alliance? – Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK, 17 March 2008
• The TaxPayers’ Alliance – Tax Justice Network, 17 March 2008
• When a tax cut isn’t a tax cut – Don Paskini, 13 March 2008
• TaxPayers Alliance again… – Labour and Capital, 4 March 2008
• The campaign group: Taxpayers’ Alliance – Brian Wheeler, BBC News, 3 March 2008
• FactCheck: ‘Gold-plated pensions’ – Channel 4 News, 29 February 2008
• TaxPayers Alliance report on council pensions – Labour and Capital, 29 February 2008
• Don’t mock the job titles. Spell out what they mean – Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 16 January 2008
• Non jobs – Don Paskini, 29 December 2007
• The Public Sector Rich List – Gracchi, Liberal Conspiracy, 29 November 2007
• Cash for access? – PoliticalHackUK, 16 October 2006
• The advocacy revolution – James Harkin, The Guardian, 2 September 2006
• TaxPayers’ Alliance – SourceWatch, 4 March 2005