by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 26, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on August 23, 2013. Pentagon officials have consistently claimed dire consequences should the taxpayer gravy train stop flowing. Faced with modest reductions in the growth of future spending due to sequestration, Deputy...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 26, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs
I was on the road this afternoon when I caught on the radio Rush Limbaugh’s mention of a 2011 article by CF&P Chairman Dan Mitchell, in which he argued against the conventional wisdom that the 1995 government shut down harmed Republicans. This debate matters...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 26, 2013 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
Since its passage in 2010, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act has been delayed multiple times. Most recently the Treasury Department has pushed back 6 months the beginning of FATCA’s withholding penalty for noncompliant institutions, from January 1, 2014 to...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 17, 2013 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
Few know better than Americans living overseas the punitive and capricious nature of U.S. tax policy. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, law professor and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Colleen Graffy provided a clear and concise accounting of...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 24, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in La Prensa (in Spanish) on June 24, 2013, and was coauthored by Brian Garst. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has tried numerous strategies to compel low-tax nations to raise tax rates and eliminate financial...
