by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2010 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Blogging will be at irregular hours for the next week. I am in Sydney for the Mont Pelerin Society conference. The MPS was founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek, “…to facilitate an exchange of ideas between like-minded scholars in the hope of strengthening the principles...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
Here’s a Reuters story about the Australian Tax Office harassing Paul Hogan, better known to Americans as Crocodile Dundee, because of a tax dispute. The grinches at the tax office took advantage of Hogan’s return for his mother’s funeral to hold him hostage, refusing...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 14, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Australia got rid of its death tax in 1979. A couple of Aussie academics investigated whether the elimination of the tax had any impact on death rates. They found the ultimate example of supply-side economics, as reported in the abstract of their study. In 1979,...
