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Brilliant news this week as Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, announced the Government will vote against further international loans to Argentina. It is a fantastic result for our StopFundingArgentina campaign, which opposed British taxpayers’ money being used to support loans to a country constantly threatening our interests. Thank you for all your help raising this issue, signing the e-petition and putting pressure on politicians to take action. This is a great example of the results we can achieve together. We need to keep the same kind of pressure on the politicians at a local and national level who are still increasing taxes and making them more and more complicated. I hope you’re with us. - Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive StopFundingArgentina victory It took lots of different campaigning tools to get the job done: a research paper, online video, thousands signing an e-petition, and lots of parliamentary pressure. Our campaign urging the Government to join the United States and other European countries in voting against new loans to Argentina has now succeeded. New video about broken Inheritance Tax promise We have released a new video this week about the Government ditching their promise to raise the Inheritance Tax threshold to £1 million. More families are going to pay unfair death duties that should be abolished, not quietly increased.  TPA Fuel Duty campaign on Question Time Fraser Nelson, Editor of the Spectator, mentioned the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign on Fuel Duty as an example of how people aren’t apathetic about politics, they just aren’t inspired by many politicians. Terrible tax proposals Ed Miliband announced proposals to bring back the 10p tax band and introduce a “Mansion Tax”. There are much simpler ways to help low earners than yet another tax band, like increasing the Personal Allowance or cutting the Basic Rate. And a "Mansion Tax" would mean higher taxes for ordinary middle class families over time, and create some absurd and deeply unfair results immediately. Is your Council planning higher taxes? There is some good news with councillors in Cornwall abandoning plans for a big rise in their allowances. But this week we revealed over 80 councils are planning to raise Council Tax. Join us tomorrow on Albert Square in Manchester at midday if you can, to protest against some of the worst offenders.