by Brian Garst | Jan 23, 2024 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by RealClearHealth on January 16, 2024. Americans care deeply about out-of-control healthcare costs. Eight in ten voters say healthcare affordability is a very important issue to them. Americans want real solutions to this problem, but the drivers...
by Brian Garst | Jan 15, 2024 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by IFC Review on January 5, 2024. There’s a lot to dislike about the OECD’s domination of global tax policy. For one, it has worked in recent decades to coerce non-member nations into adopting policies that satisfy the ideological preferences of...
by Brian Garst | Aug 1, 2023 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by AIER on July 22, 2023. Senator Bernie Sanders isn’t right about much, but he is about one thing: The United States pays too much for prescription drugs. In fact, as the Senator recently pointed out, Americans often spend two to four times more...
by Brian Garst | Jun 21, 2023 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by IFC Review on June 7, 2023. Efforts to radically reorganise global corporate taxation passed a major milestone when the European Union unanimously agreed to implement Pillar 2, the 15 per cent global minimum tax component of the Organisation...
by Brian Garst | May 30, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation, Uncategorized
We’ve written a lot about efforts by the OECD to form an international tax cartel and raise global taxes. A key component of those ongoing efforts is the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project that seeks to radically rewrite the rules for income taxes...