The latest “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P), narrated by Emily O’Neill, contrasts differing views of the relationship between government and citizens and highlights the economic and cultural dangers of relying too heavily on government programs.
read more...The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation released today a new Libertas policy brief highlighting the dangers of proposals coming out of organizations such as the United Nations and World Health Organization to self-fund through global taxes.
read more...The issue of taxing powers and direct funding has become an important issue because international organizations are challenging the contribution model and pushing for independent sources of revenue.
read more...In light of today’s Treasury Department hearing on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) is again taking the opportunity to call upon Congress to repeal the legislation.
read more...Center for Freedom and Prosperity President Andrew Quinlan sent a letter to Democrat and Republican members of the Surface Transportation Bill Conference Committee highlighting the dangers of allowing Senator Levin’s unrelated anti-tax haven amendment, slipped into the Senate version (S. 1813) by a voice vote, to make it out of conference and into the final bill.
read more...The Levin-Conrad-Whitehouse amendment inserted provisions supposedly to “Stop Tax Haven Abuse,” but which would in reality further undermine global capital flows and the world economy.
read more...The IRS has announced that they will adopt an unpopular proposed regulation to require reporting of interest paid to nonresident alien depositors. The interest is not taxable under the US tax code, and both lawmakers and experts predict it will result in a loss of foreign investment in the US.
read more...As Americans scramble to finish their federal taxes before Tuesday’s deadline, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) reminds taxpayers, politicians and voters of the tremendous hidden burden placed on Americans by the complicated federal US tax code. In a popular video first released in 2010 as part of CF&P’s Economics 101 series titled, “The Onerous Compliance Cost of the Internal Revenue Code,” narrator Hiwa Alaghebandian examines how corrupt loopholes and rising paperwork force taxpayers to devote ever larger amounts of time, energy, resources, and money in hopes of figuring out the right number to put on their tax returns.
read more...The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation released today a policy brief highlighting the severe economic damage that would result from adoption of an IRS proposal (REG-146097-09) to require U.S. banks to put foreign law above U.S. law by reporting deposit interest paid to non-resident aliens. Entitled, “Proposed IRS Interest Reporting Regulation Threatens U.S. Economy,” the paper is the second in CF&P’s new Libertas series.
read more...