by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My opinion on taxing corporate income varies with my mood. When I’m in a fiery-libertarian phase, I want to abolish taxes on corporate income for the simple reason that all income taxes should be eliminated. Heck, I would also eliminate October 3 from the calendar...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
If you look at the methodology behind the major measures of economic liberty, such as Economic Freedom of the World and Index of Economic Freedom, you’ll notice that each nation’s regulatory burden is just as important as the overall fiscal burden. Yet there doesn’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation, VAT
The value-added tax is a very dangerous levy for the simple reason that giving a big new source of revenue to Washington almost certainly would result in a larger burden of government spending. That’s certainly what happened in Europe, and there’s even more reason to...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in IFC Review on April 18, 2016, and was coauthored by Brian Garst. The public dump of millions of private correspondence and other legal documents as part of the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ leak predictably sparked a media frenzy. In the weeks...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
I sometimes wonder if I was put on this planet to defend tax competition and tax havens. I argue for fiscal sovereignty, good tax policy, and financial privacy to the denizens of Capitol Hill, both in writing and in person. I make the same arguments for readers of the...
