by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Taxation
I’m delighted that so many presidential candidates are talking about partial tax reform and I’ve specifically analyzed the plans put forth by Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, and Donald Trump. These proposals all make the tax code less punitive, and that would be...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2015 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The United States has what is arguably the worst business tax system of any nation. That’s bad for the shareholders who own companies, and it’s also bad for workers and consumers. And it creates such a competitive disadvantagethat many U.S.-domiciled companies are...
by CF&P | Jul 24, 2015 | News, Prosperity Updates
BEPS News… BEPS Hill Event Widely Attended Last week CF&P’s Brian Garst joined Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute, David Burton of the Heritage Foundation, and Gavin Ekins of the Tax Foundation in a hill briefing exploring the many problems with the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m very fond of Estonia, and not just because of the scenery. Back in the early 1990s, it was the first post-communist nation to adopt a flat tax. More recently, it showed that genuine spending cuts were the right way to respond to the 2008 crisis (notwithstanding...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2015 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
Citing the work of David Burton and Richard Rahn, I warned last July about the dangerous consequences of allowing governments to create a global tax cartel based on the collection and sharing of sensitive personal financial information. I was focused on the danger to...
