The Taxpayer (Luxembourgish:De Steierzueler,French:Le Contribuable,German:Der Steuerzahler)[1] was apolitical party inLuxembourg. It contested the1999 election to theChamber of Deputies, but disbanded afterwards.
The Taxpayer was a middle-class party that campaigned for lower government expenditure,[2] and more transparency ingovernment budgetary spending. In 1999, it contested only theCentre constituency, in which it came eighth and last, with only 1.3% of the vote. This amounted to 0.4% nationwide.[3]
A disproportionate number of these votes were cast for the leaderJhemp Bertrand,[3] a long-time councillor inSchuttrange andtax resister who had run under a number of other party names before.[4]
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