Taxpayer groups, also known as taxpayers union, are formal nonprofit or informal advocacy group

Advocacy group

Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems...

s that promote lower taxation, reductions in government spending

Government spending

Government spending includes all government consumption, investment but excludes transfer payments made by a state. Government acquisition of goods and services for current use to directly satisfy individual or collective needs of the members of the community is classed as government final...

, and limits to government debt

Government debt

Government debt is money owed by a central government. In the US, "government debt" may also refer to the debt of a municipal or local government...

. Many United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 cities and countries have taxpayer groups. They try to make their presence felt by attending government budget

Government budget

A government budget is a legal document that is often passed by the legislature, and approved by the chief executive-or president. For example, only certain types of revenue may be imposed and collected...

 hearings, working with elected officials and distributing their views on taxing and spending. They can even initiate legislation at the state level to keep taxes and spending in check.

List of taxpayers unions

- Canadian Taxpayers Alliance - Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Canadian Taxpayers Federation

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is a Canadian federally incorporated, non-profit organization and taxpayers union that claims to have over 70,000 supporters across Canada. The organization advocates lower taxes, and a reduction of what it considers to be waste in government...

 - German Taxpayers Federation - Swedish Taxpayers' Association

Swedish Taxpayers' Association

The Swedish Taxpayers' Association is an association and taxpayers union in Sweden which advocates low taxes and efficiency in the public sector...

 - The TaxPayers' Alliance

TaxPayers' Alliance

The TaxPayers' Alliance is a British pressure group and taxpayers union formed in 2004 to campaign for a low tax society. The group had about 18,000 registered supporters as of 2008, and claimed to have 55,000 by September 2010....

 - Americans For Fair Taxation

Americans For Fair Taxation

Americans For Fair Taxation , also known as FairTax.org, states it is the United States' largest, single-issue grassroots organization and taxpayers union dedicated to fundamental tax code replacement...

 - Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform is an advocacy group and taxpayer group whose stated goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax...

 - National Taxpayers Union

National Taxpayers Union

National Taxpayers Union is a taxpayers advocacy organization and taxpayers union in the United States, founded in 1969 by James Dale Davidson. NTU advertises that it is the largest and oldest grassroots taxpayer organization in the nation, with 362,000 members nationwide. It is closely...