by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2014 | Blogs, Free Market, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. Regular readers know that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is the worst institution from my perspective, followed by the International Monetary Fund. Some folks ask why the United Nations isn’t...
by Brian Garst | Aug 8, 2014 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review, Third Quarter 2014, Issue 36. Since its passage in 2010, financial institutions and their governments have scrambled to comply with the costly impositions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). To entice...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 30, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
It’s a bad idea when governments demand information on your bank accounts and investments so they can impose economically destructive double taxation. It’s a worse idea when they also demand the right to tax economic activity in other jurisdictions (otherwise known as...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 24, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I’ve argued repeatedly that efforts like FATCA and the OECD’s Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters pose a substantial threat to financial and taxpayer privacy. In an excellent commentary at The Daily Signal today,...
by CF&P | Jul 22, 2014 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Tuesday, July 22, 2014 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Statement from CF&P President on OECD’s Global Standard for Automatic Exchange of Tax Information (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 22,...
