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Welcome to the WTA Members Blog. Here is where members update one another with their latest news and campaigns. All members can send their submissions to http://worldtaxpayers.org/members-update/
The Proposed Tax Reform in the Philippines is Bad News for Everybody
4 July 2017 | The Proposed Tax Reform in the Philippines is Bad News for Everybody
Nonoy Oplas, from Minimal Government Thinkers, analyzed the implications of this tax reform and offered the arguments to refute any tax hikes.
Read moreSocialism for the Rich
3 July 2017 | New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union / New Zealand

Removing corporate welfare would allow for a six percentage point reduction in the company tax rate that would benefit all businesses equally.
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Swedish drivers are already paying about 60 billion in taxes (gas taxes and vehicle tax), but only about 25 billion goes to maintain and renew the road infrastructure.
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The Tax Foundation has just released a new report analyzing the impact of a temporary corporate tax cut on economic growth.
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“The left-wing hullabaloo is wrong, inequality hasn’t changed in 20 years”, said Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union, responding to new research findings by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.
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In the wake of the 2017 UK general election, much commentary has focused on the impact public spending cuts had on the result. Less attention has been paid to assessing by how much public spending has actually been reduced.
Read moreFighting for Taxpayers: Battles Fought & Battles Ahead
4 June 2017 | Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) / Canada

Written by CTF President Troy Lanigan, the book explores the early beginnings of the CTF in the late 1980s when citizen activists who organized “Axe the Tax” rallies to oppose the GST came to understand that as long as taxpayers were reacting to government decisions, nothing would change. Canadian taxpayers, they realized, needed a permanent, proactive and independent voice to counterbalance the inertia of big government.
Read moreNational Taxpayers Union: Standing Together: How to Start a State or Local Taxpayer Group
4 June 2017 | National Taxpayers Union (NTU) / United States

Founding an organization of taxpayers is the most effective way that concerned citizens can reduce the growing burden of taxes that they are faced with each year.
Read moreCanadian Taxpayer Federation: Municipal Ratepayers Guide
4 June 2017 | Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) / Canada

Canada has roughly 4,000 municipal governments from coast-to-coast-to-coast; and while the CTF keeps tabs on several large cities, one organization cannot be a watchdog for every single one of them. It’s up to concerned citizens across the country to accept a leadership role in “watch-dogging” their local government.
Forming a municipal ratepayers association (RPA) within a community is the first step towards productively channeling concern about high taxes, wasteful government spending and a lack of accountability into positive outcomes. Getting organized can be both fun and rewarding, but success will require determination, patience and as this guidebook’s existence implies, some advice.
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