The Swedish Taxpayers Association, Skattebetalarna, has launched an international campaign against waste.
In 1776, Scottish thinker Adam Smith wrote the book The Wealth of Nations to explain why countries grow rich.
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) achieved three policy victories recently in the province of Alberta, when the government announced a new balanced budget law, spending limitation law and surplus distribution plan.
Read moreThe Tax Foundation recently released the VAT Expansion and Labor Tax Cuts report.
The value-added tax (VAT) is a major source of revenue for EU countries. For Member States, it represents on average 17.8 percent of their total tax revenue. For the EU, VAT revenue represented roughly 7.5 percent of its total revenue in 2021.
The National Taxpayers Union has released the first annual Remote Obligations And Mobility (ROAM) Index, a ranking of how every state treats remote workers. The ROAM Index analyzes all states and the District of Columbia according to how their tax and regulatory rules treat remote workers.
Read moreNEW ZEALAND: Two Victories for Taxpayers: TVNZ/RadioNZ (RNZ) merger scrapped and the New Job Tax Postponed
18 March 2023 | New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union / New Zealand
Recently, New Zealand’s government was forced to drop its expensive plans to merge TVNZ and RNZ on which it planned to spend $3 million on rebranding alone.
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has been at the forefront of the campaign against the merger. Far from creating a more diverse media landscape, the merger would have served to concentrate power, and erode diversity and trust in media sources.
EUROPE: Michael Jaeger Interviewed on EU’s Current Tax Policy
18 March 2023 | Taxpayers Association of Europe / Europe
Michael Jaeger, Taxpayers Association of EuroTaxpaype Secretary General, in an interview for the Sunt Förnuft, the magazine of the Swedish Taxpayers Association, discussed the current efforts of the EU to further expand its tax competence and at the same time massively increase EU spending.
Read moreIn a Radio 4 documentary entitled The Other Black Door, the TaxPayers’ Alliance team was credited with “setting the narrative on issues such as austerity”, attempting to explain how “TPA ideas become government policy.”
Read moreThe Property Rights Alliance, in partnership with 125 think tanks, released the 2022 edition of the International Property Rights Index, the only global, comparative index that ranks the strength of property rights, both physical and intellectual, as well as the legal and political environments that contain them.
Read moreThe Korea Taxpayers Association (KTA) launched a campaign to abolish the no-receipt budget allocated to high-ranking officials such as the president and ministers which can be seen as “tax evasion and embezzlement.”
Read moreDear WTA members, observers and friends:
With Covid and many starts and stops behind us, we are pleased to announce the 18th World Taxpayers Conference (WTC) and World Taxpayers Associations General Meeting will take place May 23-24, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic.
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