The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) today applauded Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) for introducing legislation that would repeal the most economically destructive and privacy violating provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
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Center for Freedom and Prosperity Condemns New OECD Assault on Tax Competition and Fiscal Sovereignty
With the release of a new paper on “Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) seeks to undermine global commerce by giving high-tax nations the right to tax business income earned in low-tax jurisd…
Latest FATCA Delay Bolsters Case for Repeal, Says CF&P President
“While foreign and domestic financial institutions are taking a beating, it’s ultimately the American people who will bear the brunt of FATCA. Consumers who engage in financial activities will face higher costs, and reduced investment will mean fewer jobs for American w…
CF&P Documents Radical Statist Agenda of Tax Competition Foes
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity released today a Strategic Memorandum warning about the radical agenda pursued by opponents of tax competition. The Memorandum documents how opponents of low-tax jurisdictions and good fiscal policy are highly organized, politically…
CF&P Applauds Senate Scrutiny of Destructive FATCA Law and New Tax Information Sharing Agreement
Four US Senators are demanding details from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner regarding a recent plan to impose significant financial burdens on US institutions in exchange for international compliance with the burdensome FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) law…
CF&P Policy Brief: Global Taxes Threaten Fiscal Sovereignty and Democratic Accountability
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation released today a new Libertas policy brief highlighting the dangers of proposals coming out of organizations such as the United Nations and World Health Organization to self-fund through global taxes.
CF&P Warns Conferees Against Senator Levin’s Poison Pill Tax Amendment
Center for Freedom and Prosperity President Andrew Quinlan sent a letter to Democrat and Republican members of the Surface Transportation Bill Conference Committee highlighting the dangers of allowing Senator Levin’s unrelated anti-tax haven amendment, slipped into th…
CF&P President Andrew Quinlan Comments on Levin-Conrad-Whitehouse Amendment to Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
The Senate included a Levin-Conrad-Whitehouse amendment in the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill (S. 1813) that expands onerous powers in the Patriot Act in order to give the Treasury Department unchecked powers to extend US tax law beyond American borders.