WTA Blog

In 2018, an election year in Sweden, The Swedish Taxpayers Association decided to scale up their Slöseriombudsman – The Waste Ombudsman.

Tax Freedom Day will be three days earlier than it was in 2017.

The Institute of Economic and Social Studies in Slovakia (INESS) finds that the Price of the State per person is rising every year, this time the number hitting EUR 6326.

The Ukrainian Economic Freedom Foundation fights to save taxpayers money in US, EU, and Ukraine.

“Five Years of Failure!” That’s the message a global coalition of 62 organizations are sending to the new WHO Director Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus in reference to the plain packaging policy the organization continues to promote.

The online tax calculator developed by Contribuyentes por Respeto has been officially adopted as standard by the tax-collecting agency in Peru.

Satyajeet Marar, Director of Policy at the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance and Anjali Nadaradjane, Research Associate at the same organization, wrote an article that canvases the most recent data/evidence and focuses on Australia’s tobacco plain packaging as both a policy failure as well as an attack on IP rights.

Contribuables Associes is running a petition in order to stop the hike of Social Security Contributions and of local taxes, the so-called Macron Tax

Scott Hodge, president of the Tax Foundation, debunks European Commission claims justifying new taxes on digital companies in this blog.

IEA’s Director of Research Jamie Whyte, discusses Oxfam’s inequality report in this article for The Times and in this podcast.