by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 19, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Daily Caller on March 19, 2013. Government is larger than ever, and Americans are growing increasingly wary about expansions of federal power. To overcome public objections and justify the continued growth of government, politicians...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 8, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Forbes on March 8, 2013. Bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conjured a problem to justify a new assault on tax competition. In a recent report titled, “Addressing Base Erosion...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 6, 2013 | Blogs, Taxation
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...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Feb 27, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conjured a new problem to justify yet another assault on tax competition. Beholden to the interests of high-tax European welfare nations, the OECD has repeatedly sought,...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Feb 14, 2013 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
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). The law is ostensibly aimed at...