WTA Blog

Letter from the Chairman, no 8
Stockholm March 20th 2015

Contribuables Associés led the 50,000-person strong “Ras-le-bol fiscal,” translated to “Fed Up with Taxes,” demonstration in Paris on March 9, 2015! Read More to see photos and a video link!

We invite Friends of Liberty to join us at the 12th European Resource Bank Meeting in Istanbul on 14 – 17 May 2015 hosted by Association for Liberal Thinking, advancing ideas of liberty more than 20 years in Turkey.

European Resource Bank Meeting hosts the largest gathering of classical liberal, and libertarian intellectual entrepreneurs, free market think tankers from all around Europe.  Friends of liberty come along to exchange ideas to weaken centralized, bureaucratic powers to enhance individual liberties and free enterprise, therefore pluralism, peace and prosperity. 2015 Istanbul ERB meeting will offer discussions with inspiring speakers and invaluable opportunity of networking with like-minded friends. Come and join us!

As it’s tax season in America, when Americans pay their annual income tax, check out how their rates compare with the world.

Flat Proportional Income Taxes 2014: From 1 to 29 countries in 18 years

On behalf of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, I would like to warmly invite you all to attend the 3rd Annual Friedman Conference, organised by the Australian Libertarian Society in conjunction with the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, and with the support of the Institute for Public Affairs and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation.

The Friedman Conference has become the highlight of the Australian Liberty Calendar, with over 200 attendees, and the leading voices for liberty not just from Australia – but around the world: International guests include Dr Tom Palmer from the Atlas Network, viral-video sensation Remy Munfasi, and a libertarian activist from Iran.

The conference will be held in Sydney from May 2-3, and you can find further details at https://www.taxpayers.org.au/events/friedmanconference2015.

Sponsorship opportunities are also available for businesses and organizations that wish greater exposure here.

I know Australia seems very far away for many of you, however we promise the trip will be worth it!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions, and we look forward to seeing some of you in Sydney in May! Tim Andrews – tandrews@taxpayers.org.au

The TaxPayers’ Alliance this week called on all Britain’s political leaders to inject a dose of honesty into the pre-general election debate about future spending cuts, with the publication of comprehensive new research project The Spending Plan.

The Spending Plan sets out comprehensive proposals for savings and reforms that would reduce public spending by 2020 to 35.2 per cent of GDP, the level forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. To reach that level, we will need to save £50 billion a year by 2019-20.

Launching The Spending Plan, Jonathan Isaby, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said:

“The politicians seeking our votes owe it to all taxpayers to come clean about what spending the country can and cannot afford. This candour has so far been noticeably absent in the election campaign, with politicians failing to acknowledge the dire state of the public finances and instead clambering to make additional spending pledges.

“Our Spending Plan honestly sets out the savings that need to be made by whichever party or parties take power after the election. Today we challenge our political leaders to accept our plan or to produce a similarly rigorous set of proposals of their own which explain where it is that they would reduce spending instead.”

Read our full press release here: http://lowtax.es/198OziF

Read the summary here: http://lowtax.es/1FE7w74

Or the full report here: http://lowtax.es/1BlSuD2

I hope you have had a chance to log in on our new web page www.worldtaxpayers.org Do send us your ideas or wishes for the development of this tool, which we hope will be useful for all. We are working on more tax information and a special section on member recruitment and fund raising ideas, which will be for members only. By the end of this month we should be able to send a login to all members for access to that section as well.

The news was first published by French Magazine Le Point, but it was buried in an article talking about the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo. The news got revived thanks to a supporter of Contribuables Associés (roughly translated into English as Taxpayers United), a French group dedicated to fiscal conservatism.

The circulation of this letter has gradually increased and now reaches some 200 persons around the world! I am very pleased with this and will work to continue to make it interesting and useful, as well as with a personal touch.