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Alexander Heath, a director of theTaxpayers Alliance, lobby group, lives in France and has not paid UK tax for years.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-director-tax#_=_ Taxpayers' Alliance admits director doesn't pay British tax Hard on the heels of yesterdays story concerning Alex Wild (who is research director of  Taxpayers Alliance) and his outrageous suggestion to cut pensioners benefits now as many of them will be dead before the next general election and of those remaining, many will not remember who cut their benefiys anyway, comes the revelation that Alexander Heath, a director of the increasingly influential rightwing lobby group lives in France and has paid no tax in the United Kingdom for many years. The Taxpayers Alliance which has very close ties with the Conservative party claims to be "the guardian of taxpayers' money, the voice of taxpayers in the media and their representative at Westminster".At the Conservative party conference, the influence of theTaxpayers Alliance was underlined when David Cameron and George Os...

Alex Wild of the Taxpayers' Alliance says cut pensioner benefits as many may be dead before the next election..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965?SThisFB%3FSThisFB Taxpayers' Alliance: Cut pensioner benefits 'immediately' "Many of those hit by a cut to the winter fuel allowance might "not be around" at the next election, and others would forget which party had done it" Alex Wild of the Taxpayers' Alliance Alex Wild. Taxpayers Alliance    In making a comment which could have been taken straight from  the pages of  "Der Stürmer", Alex Wild reveals the "Taxpayer Alliance" as being little more than another extreme right pressure group, which with support and encouragement from the Conservative party, is fast becoming a dangerous and influential malignancy in British politics. The Conservative party uses this and other noxious groupings, to float out their pernicious ideas for party policy to gauge public reaction and to prepare the British people for even greater excesses during the course of a parliament.   Tax...

More absurd suggestions from the Tax Payers Alliance

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/04/benefit-claimants-taxpayers-alliance-work-dole_n_3863951.html?1378280866&utm_hp_ref=uk Benefit Claimants Should Work For Their Dole, Taxpayers' Alliance Demands The TPA was founded in 2004 by "a group of "libertarian" Conservatives, frustrated by what they saw as the party's decision to ditch its traditional tax cutting message."   The Tax Payers Alliance. A fringe pressure group, lurking somewhere on the right of British politics, who regularly come out with some headline or other, usually ill conceived and certainly ill-considered, seeking to grab attention and peddle what they consider may be popular with public opinion. When looked at more closely, the TPA argument is clearly unrealistic nonsense. The number of people out of work is 2.51 million in June, according to the Office for National Statistics of which 1.4 million are actually claiming Jobseeker's Allowance.The Tax Pa...