Householders who pay tradesmen in cash are "morally wrong", a Treasury minister has said. Exchequer Secretary David Gauke accused homeowners who gi...

There are all sorts of weird disparities in our tax system. Why should paying yourself through a company instead of being paid directly by your employer change what tax rate you pay?

A massive seven-year government programme meant to increase efficiency has cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds, a public spending watchdo...

Train companies welcomed news that the Government is to go ahead with the HS2 high-speed rail project but a taxpayers' group described the scheme as a...

There have always been those opposed to progress. But we're not talking about the Galileo or the Industrial Revolution here - we're talking about 40 minutes off the journey between London and Birmingham - at a cost of £17 billion of public money! And, when no-one can be quite sure of the scheme's success, it does all seem like a little too high a price to pay.

A furious war of words has broken out between the Taxpayer’s Alliance and the government over claims that members of the British Council have wasted...

Speaker John Bercow has raised eyebrows after spending £30,000 on overseas travel in two years. The figures were revealed in a freedom of informat...

Using taxpayers' money to fund trade union activity cannot be justified "morally or economically", David Cameron has said. The Prime Minister ha...

Taxpayers are funding trade unions to the tune of £113 million a year through direct grants and paid time off for union reps in public-sector organis...

We published a detailed recommendation to abolish NI and make payslips more honest last week. So much more can be done on tax transparency and it really is the one area that the Government can inform the debate on tax with little effort, in keeping with a broader transparency agenda.

The Government has launched a crackdown on offshore tax, announcing an agreement with Switzerland to help claw-back billions in unpaid tax. Under t...

Seasoned TPA watchers, though, may have experienced a sense of déjà vu on encountering this supposedly original work.

Those who look in on the website of the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA), the grassroots equivalent of the Peoples' Front of Judaea, may have noticed that the output of knocking copy aimed at Government - any Government - has fallen recently, although there are still regular attempts to pretend knowledge of jobs merely from job titles, and lectures on economics.

Politicians like Hammond always seem to want to leave a legacy of some sort, it's often an expensive project that taxpayers inevitably have to bankroll, even better if it's really big or fast or purports to be trail-blazing.