TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated


by Newswire    
8:01 am - December 30th 2009

Tweet       Share on Tumblr

The charitable arm of the Taxpayers’ Alliance is being investigated by regulators after the Guardian revealed the Tory-linked campaign group may have used the charity to gain tax relief, normally reserved for good causes, on donations for political research.

The Charity Commission has stepped up its scrutiny of the campaign group’s funding by opening a regulatory compliance case into the Politics and Economics Research Trust.

Earlier this month it emerged that, in order to benefit from gift aid, the alliance asked private Midlands businessmen to channel funds through the trust for research into policies which may damage their commercial interests. Organisations may not be charitable if they have political purposes, according to commission guidelines.

“The scope of the investigation is to address the allegations relating to the charity’s relationship with the Taxpayers’ Alliance,” a spokesman for the commission said. The regulator opens such cases when “available information indicates misconduct or mismanagement has occurred” and where trustees’ actions “may have been improper”.

…more at The Guardian

  Tweet   Share on Tumblr   submit to reddit  


About the author

· Other posts by


Story Filed Under: News


Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.


Reader comments


1. Richard

Seems fair as long as the investigation isn’t politically motivated.

2. DC

“Organisations may not be charitable if they have political purposes, according to commission guidelines.”

Fair enough as long they also investigate every single fake charity that pursues a political agenda: there goes most of the environmental ‘charities’ as well as half the health and social ones as well because they all attempt to influence political agendas and therefore have a political purpose.

Apart from they won’t be investigated will they because there’s a commission that decides what’s political and what isn’t and as usual with the left as long as you agree with us you’re ok.

How about a rule forbidding any charity from political lobbying. This would free up loads more money for the good causes that these charities espouse as they wouldn’t be spunking so much of it up the wall taking politicians out for dinner.


Reactions: Twitter, blogs
  1. Liberal Conspiracy

    :: TaxPayers' Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/5ix2mJ

  2. T_i_B

    RT @libcon TaxPayers' Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/5ix2mJ #TPA

  3. Kevin Arscott

    RT @libcon: :: TaxPayers' Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/5ix2mJ

  4. Hannah Mudge

    Liberal Conspiracy » TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/60VSDW

  5. HarpyMarx

    RT @copwatcher: RT @libcon TaxPayers' Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/5ix2mJ

  6. Naadir Jeewa

    Reading: TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated: The charitable arm of the Taxpayers’ Alliance .. http://bit.ly/7gVXmn

  7. Gareth Winchester

    RT @libcon TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/60VSDW @otherTPA

  8. Tweets that mention Liberal Conspiracy » TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated -- Topsy.com

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Liberal Conspiracy, Gareth Winchester. Gareth Winchester said: RT @libcon TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/60VSDW @otherTPA [...]

  9. Kevin Blowe

    RT @libcon TaxPayers' Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/5ix2mJ

  10. uberVU - social comments

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

    This post was mentioned on Twitter by libcon: :: TaxPayers’ Alliance charity to be investigated http://bit.ly/5ix2mJ…

  11. Adam White

    missed this gem from a few days ago on @libcon http://tr.im/JkWU Taxpayers Alliance to get investigated

  12. Adam White

    @TamesideEye its that bloody tr.im application https://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/12/30/taxpayers-alliance-charity-to-be-investigated/





Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.