Saturday, 17 November 2012

The fight for lower taxes isn’t confined to Westminster. Tim Newark’s brilliant work as our South West Coordinator shows what TPA grassroots activists can achieve across the country. Fresh from defeating plans for a new parking tax in Bristol, this week he organised a protest in Bath. He rallied local businesses to fight plans for a national increase in rates that would close stores and kill jobs. Let us know if you would like to get involved and help fight in your area for value for money and fairer taxes.
Matt Sinclair, Chief Executive

Fighting for lower business rates in Bath

South West Coordinator Tim Newark got small business owners together to fight yet another tax hike. You can help at FreezeBusinessRates.org.

More corporate tax dodging

We were on the airwaves arguing for simpler and more competitive taxes to ensure big companies play by the same set of rules as the rest of us. Allister Heath – Chairman of the 2020 Tax Commission – wrote about the changes needed.

£450,000 reward for failure at the BBC

Many people were shocked this week when, after resigning in response to major scandals, the BBC Director-General received a massive pay-off after only 54