TaxPayers' Alliance
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The TaxPayers' Alliance is a British pressure group formed in 2004 to campaign for "a low tax society" and claims to have over five thousand supporters.[1]
The Alliance claim their mission is:[2]
- To reverse the perception that big government is necessary and irreversible.
- To explain the benefits of a low tax economy.
- To give taxpayers a voice in the corridors of power.
- To oppose EU tax harmonisation.
In November 2004 and December 2005, the Alliance sent letters to the Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph in opposition to high taxation.[3] The signatories included Adam Afriyie, Tim Congdon, Howard Flight, Ruth Lea, Patrick Minford, Kenneth Minogue, Andrew Roberts, Lord Salisbury and Roger Scruton.
In 2006 the Alliance published a book, The Bumper Book of Government Waste, detailing "waste" in government departments, local government, devolved government, The Royal Family and the European Union.
