TaxPayers' Alliance
@the_tpa
Fighting for lower taxes and holding power to account – Britain’s grassroots campaign for taxpayers.
Britain’s welfare bill is spiralling out of control, with health and disability benefits alone set to hit £100bn by 2029-30🚨 Our researcher @Callum_McGol breaks down the problem and how our new benefits dashboard reveals the scale of the crisis 👇
Water Regulation Quango has Been Scrapped - But Now What? 🚰 Head of campaigns @ElliotKeck joined @iancollinsuk on Talk to discuss the scrapping of the water regulator Ofwat and what might replace it 📺
We’re still bankrolling a work-from-home culture in Whitehall 😠 While families face squeezed services and record-high taxes, officials are busy kitting out home offices at their expense - how nice for them🙄 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
It's true! Some key findings from @the_tpa May 2024 briefing note: 1. The tax burden is forecasted to rise every year from 2024-25 up to the end of the forecast period in 2028-29. The forecast shows the tax burden standing at 37.1 per cent in 2028-29, this would be the highest…
Brace yourselves
The government talks tough on cracking down on benefits fraud, and yet turns a blind eye to wrongdoing in its own ranks 😠 Those who stole benefits from pensioners and the disabled should be fired immediately 👏 inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
REVEALED: 1.3 Million Migrants Receiving Benefits 💷 Head of campaigns @ElliotKeck joined @tomhfh and @CarverEmily on @GBNEWS to discuss the news that nearly 1.3 million migrants were receiving universal credit payments 📺
Today's ONS public sector finance stats are a fiscal horror show, with the government borrowing £20.7bn in June alone. Make no mistake, government borrowing is dragging Britain deeper into an economic doom spiral 📉 Research intern @strickia explains more 👇
Quick snifter with @yarwoodwilliam and @DuncanBarkes having just recorded the @the_tpa podcast that comes out on Thursday. Good to see the MoG press table still working as Andrew Marr and Beth Rigby walked past and joined the convo.
Important thread, echoes many of the points we @the_tpa made in our paper on wealth taxes last year Key point is that a broad-based tax is the only way to raise any revenue. But a broad-based tax is so economically & politically damaging it's essentially impossible to implement
A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:
🚨 The latest public sector finance stats for June just dropped from @ONS and they're a fiscal horror show. Borrowing up, debt interest up, deficit up, spending up and taxes up. Here's what you need to know about how the government's finances are spiralling🧵
The Government is right to begin selling this asset - the priority must be to claw back as much money as possible from the disastrous HS2 scheme 👏 inews.co.uk/news/hs2-waste…
Dozens of councils, in places most will never have heard of, doubled council tax in 2024-25 That includes eleven which increased rates by 300 per cent, and one which hiked rates by *1,783 per cent* All without a referendum How is this even possible? 🧵
"It now looks inevitable that Rachel Reeves will hike taxes yet again in her autumn budget." ✍️ Take a read of Mike Denham's blog on who will pay for Reeves' next tax hike 👇 taxpayersalliance.com/who_will_pay_f…
We found that Ofwat, the water regulator, had been sending officials off on foreign jollies around the world despite only having a British remit 🤔 Quangocras wasting taxpayers' money - again! 🤢 order-order.com/2025/07/18/exc…
