Members Highlights

Many thanks to the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance and Tax and Super Australia, especially to Tim Andrews, for hosting and organizing the 17th World Taxpayers’ Conference & 7th Friedman Conference in Sydney in May 2019.  More than 460 people form over 30 countries attended the conference (including four delegates from South-America) thanks in part to scholarships offered by the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform and Atlas Network.

All this wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of Melanie Harvie, Troy Lanigan, former chair of WTA, and John O’Oconnell the new Chairman and President of the World Taxpayers Associations. Thank you to all who took the time and resources to attend and participate.

The next WTA Conference will be hosted by Contribuables Associes, the French Taxpayers Association,  in Paris in 2021.

Pictures by  Prof Rudolf G Maier. More pictures will be available soon.

In celebration of World IP day, an international coalition of 77 organizations from 39 countries along with Property Rights Alliance has launched an open letter addressed to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Director General Dr. Francis Gurry, urging WIPO to double its efforts in advising governments to protect intellectual property rights.

Thanks to Taxpayers’ Alliance work, senior staff leaving public sector roles will soon have payouts capped at £95,000.  The Treasury announced that it is implementing the cap on public sector ‘exit payments’. This is a huge victory for the TPA – and it is, of course, good news for taxpayers.

The Peruvian Taxpayers Association launched the first Peruvian Taxpayers Calculator. This initiative was possible thanks to Atlas Network and also to the good example of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute.

On March 7th, Nosotros los Contribuyentes (We the Taxpayers), launched the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

Dear WTA Members, observers and friends: 

Upcoming WTA Events:

The first WTA-sponsored Regional Taxpayers Forum of 2019 will take place in Chisinau, Moldavia, March 28-29th 2019. The World Taxpayers Associations along with Americans for Tax Reform and the European Resource Bank Meeting are pleased to invite delegates to join us in an exchange of ideas and best practices to advance taxpayer advocacy in Europe.

The French government finally removed a fee imposed when paying your taxes by check.

A successful TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign in Southampton means a proposed “clean air zone,” which would have meant a £100 a day tax on certain vehicles entering the city, has been scrapped.  To find out more click here.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is involved in intervening on behalf of taxpayers in four court cases: two involve supporting provinces (sub-national governments) in their effort to stop the federal government from imposing carbon taxes.

The Ukrainian Parliament approved several changes in the budget law that the Ukrainian Economic Freedom Foundation fought for including: