Reckless IRS Regulation Would Put Foreign Tax Law over American Tax Law and Drive Investment out of the United States

by | Apr 11, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’m not a big fan of the IRS, but usually I blame politicians for America’s corrupt, unfair, and punitive tax system. Sometimes, though, the tax bureaucrats run amok and earn their reputation as America’s most despised bureaucracy. Here’s an example. Earlier this...

CTC Letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner

by | Apr 7, 2011 | Letters

[PDF Version] April 7, 2011 Hon. Timothy F. Geithner Secretary of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Secretary Geithner: We are writing to express our deep concern with an onerous regulation (REG-146097-09), proposed by the...

British Business Writer Explains: Thanks to Tax Competition and Tax Havens, the Greed of the Political Class Is Being Constrained

by | Mar 20, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of tax competition because politicians are less likely to misbehave if the potential victims of plunder have the ability to escape across borders. Here is an excerpt from a superb article by Allister Heath, one of the U.K.’s...