This article appeared in Harbour Times.
Andrew F. Quinlan
Andrew F. Quinlan was a co-founder of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and served as its president for over 20 years.
Before CF&P, Andrew was Senior Economic Analyst for the Republican National Committee, and then served as a top staff member for New Jersey Congressman Jim Saxton, including as senior advisor to the Joint Economic Committee.
Andrew passed away in 2022.
Enough with the tax-code paternalism
This article appeared in The Daily Caller.
FATCA: Exposing the IGA Bait-and-Switch
There are many problems with the FATCA intergovernmental agreement (IGA) process. From a US perspective, they agreements represent a subversion of the proper treaty process, an unconstitutional expansion of executive powers, and an unwise commitment to saddle US banks…
New EPA emissions rules would bury coal
This article appeared in The Washington Times.
Congress Fails Basic Test of Fiscal Discipline on MEADS
When it comes to frivolous and wasteful spending, Congress just can’t get enough. Even a development program for missiles that no one wants with massive cost overruns can’t be cut off. Every time it’s de-funded, as it was by last year’s NDAA,…
FATCA and US fiscal imperialism threaten to sink global economy
This article appeared in The Daily Caller.
New OECD Report Calls For Crippling New Corporate Tax Rules
This article appeared in Forbes.
Has Greedy IRS Overreach Doomed FATCA, or Just the Economy?
I recently noted that the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) would threaten America’s global economic dominance because, among other reasons, “Investment will instead go to places like China, where the government is unlikely to sign away their…
OECD Outlines New Assault on Tax Competition
The latest attempt at ending tax competition was kicked off with an OECD report called “Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting.” The paper is deeply troubling for advocates of tax competition and pro-growth policies.
FATCA Overreach Will Sabotage American Global Competitiveness
If Congress set out right now to craft a law to sabotage the global competitiveness of the US economy, they’d have trouble coming up with one better than what they passed in 2010 in the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).