The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation today released a new mini-documentary discussing President Obama’s proposed stimulus plan. Entitled “Obama’s So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy,” the video explains why the proposal is best descr…
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CTC Letter to World Bank
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by 31 of the country’s most influential free-market groups, has sent a letter urging the World Bank “to stand on the side of tax competition and fiscal sovereignty and not for bigger and more…
The Global Flat Tax Revolution: Lessons for Policy Makers
Atleast 24 nations have adopted some form of single-rate tax regime. These reforms have generated impressive results, including faster growth, more jobs, and increased competitiveness. While politicians generally are most concerned about losing tax revenue, they should …
Labour Supply and Marginal Tax Rates: A case study of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
The Prosperitas study by Bram de Bruin (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), originally prepared as a masters’ thesis and with assistance from the European Independent Institute (The Hague, The Netherlands) investigates the effect of labour income taxes on the supply of paid…
The Iceland Tax System: Key features and Lessons for Policy Makers
Market-oriented tax policy has played a key role in Iceland’s rebirth. Major tax reforms include slashing the corporate tax rate from 50 percent to 18 percent, abolition of the wealth tax, a low-rate 10 percent flat tax on capital income, and an intermediate-rate 36 per…
CTC Letter to Henry Paulson on Protecting Tax Competition
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by 44 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, has sent a letter urging Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to “protect America’s self-interest” and oppose proposals…
Making Section 911 Universal is Good Economic Policy and Good Tax Policy
America is one of the few nations to tax citizens who live and work abroad. Indeed, no other industrialized nation imposes a second layer of tax on its expatriates. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has introduced legislation, the Working American Competitiveness Act (S. 3496),…
Third CTC Letter to Secretary Snow on Interest-Reporting Regulation
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by more than 30 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, urged Treasury Secretary John Snow to immediately withdrawal the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulation “first…
CTC Letter to OMB Director Bolten on OECD Funding
The Coalition for Tax Competition today sent a letter urging Joshua B. Bolten, the Director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, to “strongly consider eliminating or at least dramatically reducing funding” to the Paris-based…
Territorial Taxation for Overseas Americans: Section 911 Should Be Unlimited, Not Curtailed
If policy makers created a level playing field by making Section 911 universal, more Americans could find jobs in the global economy, U.S. companies would become more internationally competitive, and U.S. exports would substantially increase.