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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.

A compilation of ideas and best practices from around the world

Dear WTA members, observers and friends:

It is a great privilege to write my first message to you as the new Chairman and President of the World Taxpayers Associations. After a fantastic meeting in Sydney, I take over the role from Troy Lanigan, who you will all know or be aware of.

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.

Dear WTA members, observers and friends:
Allow me to open by thanking all of you for the great privilege it has been to serve as chairman of World Taxpayers Associations for the past three years. I have enjoyed all of it – especially the many exchanges of ideas, best practices and comradery shared at regional forums and related events around the world.

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.