Tag Archives : Financial Privacy
The Economic Case for Tax Havens
Statist politicians and international bureaucracies such as the OECD and UN routinely attack tax havens, claiming that they lead to “harmful tax competition.” Yet at no point do critics bother to provide any evidence for this claim. This mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity looks at the empirical data and scholarly research and reports that tax havens actually have a very positive impact on the global economy.
read more...Third CTC Letter to Secretary Snow on Interest-Reporting Regulation
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by more than 30 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, urged Treasury Secretary John Snow to immediately withdrawal the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulation “first proposed by the Clinton Administration three days before President Bush’s first inauguration over five years ago.” The proposed rule […]
read more...Second CTC Letter to Secretary Snow on Interest-Reporting Regulation
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by more than 40 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, urged Treasury Secretary John Snow to “permanently withdraw a proposed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulation (Reg 133254-02) that would force U.S. banks to report deposit interest paid to nonresident aliens.” In the letter sent […]
read more...CTC Letter to Secretary Snow on Interest-Reporting Regulation
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity, joined by more than 30 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, urged Treasury Secretary John Snow to “permanently” withdraw the proposed regulation to require the reporting of bank deposit interest paid to nonresident aliens (REG-133254-02). In the letter sent today to the Treasury Secretary, the members […]
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Who Writes the Law: Congress or the IRS?
The Internal Revenue Service has proposed a regulation (133254-02) that would require U.S. financial institutions to report bank deposit interest paid to certain nonresident aliens. The IRS admits that the information is not needed to enforce U.S. tax law, and instead seeks to collect the information so it can be provided to the tax authorities of 15 specified nations. But since nonresident alien depositors easily can shift their funds to other jurisdictions if they wish to protect their privacy, the regulation has attracted considerable opposition. Critics fear the regulation would drive capital from the U.S. economy and undermine the competitiveness of American financial institutions.
read more...CTC Letter to Secretary O’Neill on Interest-Reporting Regulation
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity, joined by more than 30 of the country’s largest and most influential free-market groups, urged Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill to “immediately” withdraw the proposed regulation to require the reporting of bank deposit interest paid to nonresident aliens (REG-133254-02). In the letter sent Wednesday to the Treasury Secretary, the members […]
read more...CTC Letter to OMD Director Daniels Opposing Interest-Reporting Regulation
Letter from 27 of the Country’s Most Prestigious Free Market Groups Urging the Bush Administration to Oppose the Clinton-Era IRS Bank Deposit Interest Regulation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ December 19, 2001 Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Director Office of Management and Budget Old Executive Office Building 725 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20503 Dear Mr. Daniels, By declaring most […]
read more...CTC Letter on Interest-Reporting Regulation
CF&P and the Coalition for Tax Competition advocate pulling IRS regulation on the reporting of bank deposit interest paid to nonresident aliens in a letter to the Senate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ November 1, 2001 Dear Senator: The economy is performing below its potential. Workers are losing jobs, families are watching investments drop in value, and businesses are […]
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