by Brian Garst | Apr 22, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on April 19, 2018. When Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher slashed top personal income tax rates in the 1980s for the U.S. and the U.K., other nations were forced to follow suit. In the following decades, the global tax...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 19, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Cayman Financial Review on April 19, 2018. Late 2017 saw the release of the first peer review for the implementation of the BEPS Action 5 standard on the exchange of information on certain tax rulings. Action 5 (Harmful Tax Practices) requires...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 13, 2018 | Featured, Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Washington Examiner on April 7, 2018. For years, European tax collectors have been targeting American firms. Recently, EU commissioners unveiled a proposal aimed at siphoning billions of dollars from American tech companies by targeting...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2018 | Featured, Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Washington Times on March 25, 2018. Since 2014, Congress has included the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in its annual appropriations bills. It expressly prevents funds from being used by the Department of Justice to prosecute individuals using...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 20, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Daily Caller on March 19, 2018. Far too often it seems like the federal government runs on autopilot. Federal regulatory inertia ensures that the bureaucratic state, thanks to its unmanageable size and vast powers, tends to resist political...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Hill on March 18, 2018. Republicans made the elimination of onerous Obama-era regulations an early priority, but the effort has since stalled. That’s unfortunate, as a great many destructive rules remain either in effect or in the pipeline....
