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Dear WTA members, observers and friends:
I hope you and your families are all safe and well in these strange times.

I’d like to open by encouraging everyone to visit our website and our Facebook group. Our community is only as strong and as beneficial as we choose to make it.

Dear WTA members, observers and friends: 
Next WTA events:
Taxpayers Regional Forum in Kyiv Ukraine May 16, 2020
The first WTA-sponsored Taxpayers Regional Forum of 2020 will take place in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 16th.

The Swedish people have designated climate policy as the worst waste of the year (2019) in the Waste Ombudsman’s competition.

We the Taxpayers (Nosotros los Contribuyentes, NLC) in Argentina launched the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. NLC presented together with the National Deputy Gaston Roma the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. This bill explains the rights taxpayers have and protects them from IRS’ abuse by limiting and reducing its currently overwhelming power.

On December 11 and 12th, member organisations of the Taxpayers Association of Europe (TAE) met in Brussels for the TAE General Assembly.

A historic first for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation – they have been granted intervener status to appear before the Supreme Court of Canada!

Property Rights Alliance released the world’s first International Trade Barrier Index. The Index ranks 86 countries on their use of the most the direct barriers to trade: tariffs, non-tariff measures, and services restrictions, as well as their ability to facilitate trade.

Property Rights Alliance, in partnership with the Foundation for Economic Freedom and Minimal Government Thinkers in the Philippines, released the 2019 International Property Rights Index. The Index measures the strength of physical property rights, intellectual property rights, and the legal and political environments that enforce them.

In October 2019, the Spanish Taxpayers Union (Unión de Contribuyentes) launched the third edition of its Regional Tax Competitiveness Index. T

On October 2nd, the Tax Foundation released the 2019 International Tax Competitiveness Index, which compares OECD countries on over 40 variables that measure how well each country’s tax system promotes sustainable economic growth and investment.

Thanks to the efforts of my team at the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s efforts, plans to increase probate fees up to £6,000 have been scrapped. On October 12th the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland announced that a proposed rise in probate fees had been abolished. This is another huge victory for the TPA and taxpayers. It is terrific news that the justice minister has put the final nail in the coffin for this hated stealth death tax.