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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is a Paris-based bureaucracy that seeks to punish low-tax jurisdictions in an attempt to hinder the flight of jobs and capital from high-tax countries. Unwilling to reform their tax codes for fear of undermining their ballooning and highly inefficient welfare states, OECD member nations are resorting to unjust protectionist measures against jurisdictions that have adopted free-market tax policies.

Helpful resources:

Dan Mitchell, “No More Subsidies to the OECD from American Taxpayers,” Market Center Blog, July 16, 2012.
Richard Rahn, “Rise of the global tax collectors,” Washington Times, July 9, 2012.
Andrew Quinlan, “The OECD’s Double Standard,” Market Center Blog, June 18, 2012.
Dan Mitchell and Brian Garst, “The unfortunate genesis of an international tax organisation,” Offshore Investment, November 2011.

Center for Freedom and Prosperity Condemns New OECD Assault on Tax Competition and Fiscal Sovereignty

February 20, 2013 | Comments Off

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 jurisdictions. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity strongly opposes this new OECD scheme.

The Paris-Based OECD: Pushing Obama’s Big-Government Agenda With Your Tax Dollars

August 2, 2010 | Comments Off

American taxpayers finance nearly one-fourth of the budget for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy that routinely advocates for more government – including more taxes and spending in the United States. In just the past couple of years, the OECD has used American tax dollars to advocate Obamacare-type health policies, push for failed Keynesian stimulus spending, promote Al Gore-style carbon taxes, and urge the enactment a value-added tax. To reduce wasteful spending and protect America’s free market system, American subsidies for this Paris-based bureaucracy should be eliminated.

Monitoring the OECD’s Campaign Against Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy: Strategies for Low-Tax Jurisdictions

May 23, 2011

The tide is now turning against high-tax nations – particularly as more people understand that ever-increasing fiscal burdens inevitably lead to Greek-style fiscal collapse. Political changes in the United States further complicate the OECD’s ability to impose bad policy. Because of these developments, low-tax jurisdictions should be especially resistant to new anti-tax competition initiatives at the Bermuda Global Forum.