WTA Blog

Today Lithuania commemorates the first Respect for Taxpayers Day. On this occasion, the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) has launched The Charter of Taxpayer’s Rights, taking the opportunity to highlight that taxpayers have not only duties to observe but also rights to enjoy.

Dear WTA Members, observers and friends:

Upcoming WTA Events:

Regional Taxpayers Forum in Copenhagen Denmark May 28, 2018
The first WTA-sponsored Regional Taxpayers Forum of 2018 will take place in Copenhagen Denmark, May 28. The World Taxpayers Associations along with The Tax Foundation andAmericans for Tax Reform are pleased to invite European and international delegates to join us for a discussion on tax policy.

The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) presents the eleventh Town Hall Rich List, the only comprehensive list of its kind, with council-by-council breakdown.

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.