The TaxPayers' Alliance - Economics 101

Tax Freedom Day response

TPA response to Tax Freedom Day, which in 2007 fell on 1 June. The report compares estimates of Tax Freedom Day in other countries.

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Poorest fifth pay the highest tax burden

This report analyses official data for the last 20 years and finds that the gap between the tax burden facing the poorest fifth and the richest fifth of households has widened under Gordon Brown. The poor pay higher taxes than the rich.

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Dynamic model of the UK economy

The TPA commissioned the respected Centre for Economics and Business Research to build a dynamic model of the UK, to show how tax reductions will benefit the economy. This report explains how the model was set up and simulates a reduction in the corporation tax rate to the Irish rate of 12.5 per cent over nine years. The results are quite dramatic!

Download The dynamic impact of the 2007 Budget and a comparison with the impact of gradually introducing an Irish level of corporation tax (PDF)

Download the press release accompanying the report (PDF)

Budget 2007: tax cuts abroad

In advance of the Budget in March 2007, the TPA detailed a large number of countries abroad that had cut taxes in the past two years, putting pressure on Gordon Brown to follow suit.

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Who wants to be a Tax Millionaire?

...Nobody, but if current trends continue, by 2015 the average houshold will be paying £1 million in direct and indirect taxes over a lifetime.

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The real cost of Gordon Brown

This report shows how, if Gordon Brown had not increased the tax burden, the basic rate of income tax could have been cut to just 10 per cent.

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Flat Tax: Towards a British Model by Allister Heath

A fair income tax which taxed all income at the same percentage would dramatically improve incentives, while bureaucracy could be dispensed with almost entirely. This idea, already sweeping Eastern Europe, is the 'flat tax'.

Published by The TaxPayers' Alliance and The Stockholm Network

You can order a copy of the flat tax pamphlet by either:

• Sending a cheque for £10 to The TaxPayers' Alliance, 1 Warwick Row, London, SW1E 5ER
• Sending the TPA £10 via the PayPal button below (You do not need to create a PayPal account, simply use the first option on the page):

Or, Download Flat Tax: Towards a British Model by Allister Heath

Tax Reform Commission response note

The TaxPayers' Alliance responds to the Tax Reform Commission report.

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Total Lifetime Tax

How much will the average person pay in tax during their lifetime?  Find out in this TaxPayers' Alliance Research Note.

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