National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s (NTUF’s) National Taxpayers Conference has gained a reputation for no-nonsense agendas and expert seminar leaders. And no wonder – NTUF’s 2005 conference planners are assembling a top-notch program with speakers who know every square inch of their fields and can give expert advise to budding citizen activists.

Those invited include elected officials from Congress, the Administration, and state capitals who have direct experience in government reform, citizen activists who’ve tackled high-taxers on their own turf, and a host of working journalists, marketing executives, lobbyists, and technology gurus. One major keynote speaker is Representative Mike Pence (R-IN), the newly elected Chairman of the Republican Study Committee and one of just 25 Republican lawmakers in the House who opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement on fiscal principles. Taken altogether, National Taxpayers Conference is a unique blend of the practical and the political.

Confirmed attendees for 2005 hail from over 20 states, the District of Columbia, and one foreign country, and 20 national and state-level think tanks, organizations, and activist groups are serving as cosponsors or exhibitors thus far.

Aside from the chance to interact with experts on the nuts-and-bolts of grassroots machinery, and network with other citizen activists, Conference participants will also discuss cutting-edge themes that will steer the tax revolt in the near future, such as:

• The “Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights” movement, which has caught fire in more than a dozen states and has given more heartburn to high-tax politicians than any other reform drive since Proposition 13.

• What’s the single biggest emerging state and local tax threat to Americans? Hint: It’s targeting a service most of us take for granted every day, and if elected officials get their iron grip on it, the implications for the economy could be enormous.

• Aside from recruiting committed volunteers, raising funds for a fledging citizen organization is the most daunting task activists face. Fortunately, technological innovation has put techniques for sustaining human and financial resources in the grasp of even local groups – techniques that were once feasible only on a wide scale in national-level non-profit groups.

“These intriguing subjects, and many more, won’t be explored in this depth anywhere else, so why go anywhere else?” NTUF President John Berthoud asked. “By signing up now for National Taxpayers Conference 2005, you can help us write the next colorful chapter of the tax revolt.”

For more details, including a preliminary conference agenda, or to use NTUF’s secure online conference registration service, visit www.ntu.org.