Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the horrible crime of standing in the public lobby of a hotel and giving advice to low-tax jurisdictions. On […]

Senator Rubio continues to impress with his Reagan-like efforts to restrain government and promote growth. His latest initiative is legislation to curtail rogue IRS bureaucrats who are seeking to use regulatory edicts to overturn 90 years of law. Here are excerpts from a report in The Hill. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and other Senate Republicans […]

One of the tax increases buried in Obamacare was an onerous and intrusive “1099″ scheme that would have required businesses to collect tax identification numbers for just about any vendor and then send paperwork to the IRS whenever they did more than $600 of business. Send one of your sales people to New York for […]

I’m depressed about the global network of tax police being organized by the OECD and high-tax governments. If successful, it will lead to much bigger, more oppressive government. But maybe there’s a way of fighting back. Here’s a video from the folks at Reason TV about something that governments would hate – anonymous, digital money. […]

CF&P recently released a paper calling on low-tax jurisdictions to resist the OECD. The high-tax European welfare states which control the OECD continue to move the goal posts and devise ever more hoops through which low-tax jurisdictions are expected to jump. As such, it becomes increasingly important for these nations to draw a line in […]

With the next meeting of the Global Tax Forum – part of the anti-tax competition program of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – scheduled to begin next week in Bermuda, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) has today released a Prosperitas paper calling on low-tax jurisdictions to stand up against the constantly growing demands of European tax collectors struggling to prop-up floundering welfare states.

The tide is now turning against high-tax nations – particularly as more people understand that ever-increasing fiscal burdens inevitably lead to Greek-style fiscal collapse. Political changes in the United States further complicate the OECD’s ability to impose bad policy. Because of these developments, low-tax jurisdictions should be especially resistant to new anti-tax competition initiatives at the Bermuda Global Forum.

Led by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, members of the Coalition for Tax Competition (CTC) testified Wednesday, May 18, 2011, as part of a 10-year ongoing battle against a proposed IRS regulation to collect additional and unnecessary information from nonresident aliens who invest in the United States.

There hasn’t been much good economic news in recent years, but one bright spot for the economy is that the United States is a haven for foreign investors and this has helped attract more than $10 trillion to American capital markets according to Commerce Department data. These funds are hugely important for the health of […]

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity and the Coalition for Tax Competition are pleased to acknowledge the strong stand three Senators have made against a proposed IRS regulation to collect additional and unnecessary information from nonresident aliens who invest in the United States.