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New Zealand Initiative Exposes Another Regulatory Tax on Housing

The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the release of The New Zealand Initiative’s report into workplace health and safety costs driving up the price of construction. The report by Dr Bryce Wilkinson, A Matter of Balance: Regulating Safety, finds these taxes cost New Zealand homeowners over $100 million per year.

International Property Rights Newsletter – July 16, 2015, N.32

Read the latest news on international property rights from around the world. Written and compiled by Lorenzo Montanari, Americans for Tax Reform.

We Told You So: Ireland to Extend Plain Packaging to Alcohol

Section: Members Highlights / WTA Blog
17 July 2015 | Taxpayers Protection Alliance / United States

Back in May at the European Resource Bank meeting, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance co-hosted a reception with the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance and the Property Rights Alliance where we talked about plain packaging of tobacco products and the potential for the next product to be alcohol. Well, it looks like we were right. Ireland is now considering plain packaging for alcohol. There are times when you are right but you don’t want to be. Here is TPA’s latest blog on the issue.

International Property Rights Newsletter – N.32

Section: Taxpayer Leaders Forum / WTA Blog
10 July 2015 | Taxpayers Protection Alliance / United States

Read the latest news on international property rights from around the world. Written and compiled by Lorenzo Montanari, Americans for Tax Reform.

Good News for Australia!

Section: Members Highlights / WTA Blog
10 July 2015 | Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance / Australia

Tim Andrews, executive director of the Australia Taxpayers’ Alliance, is happy to report that the Australian Senate Economic References Committee has set up a committee to investigate the nanny state!

Elements of a Modern Nonprofit By Kerry Halferty Hardy

Section: WTA Blog
26 June 2015 | Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance / Australia

The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Kerry Halferty Hardy’s popular talk at the 2015 European Resource Bank in Istanbul on what today’s modern nonprofit needs to do well and how it can increase its impact.

Austrian Economic Center’s June Edition – Views from Vienna

Section: Members Highlights / WTA Blog
20 June 2015 | Austrian Economics Center / Austria

Read More to know about the successful Free Market Road Shows, news from the Austrian Economics Center, and upcoming taxpayer protection group events.

New Flat Income Tax Research – 1to 44 Countries in 17 Years

Section: WTA Blog
20 June 2015 | Austrian Economics Center / Austria

Check out former WTA Secretary General Bjorn Tarras-Wahlberg’s latest research on Global Flat Income Tax Rates.

Davor Huić of Lipa is Now Economic Advisor to Croatian President

Section: Members Highlights / WTA Blog
20 June 2015 | Lipa / Croatia

Congratulations to Davor Huić, executive director of Lipa, who is now an economic advisor to the newly-elected Croatian president, bringing free market and limited government ideals to the most senior levels of government.