by Andrew F. Quinlan | Nov 2, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review on November 1, 2016. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), operating at the behest of its high-tax member nations, has gradually carved for itself a central role in global tax matters over...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Financial Privacy, Society
Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the federal government (as well as other governments around the world) began to adopt policies based on the idea that crime could be reduced if you somehow could make it very difficult for criminals to use the money they illegally...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 22, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Hill on June 21, 2016. The Washington Post recently featured a 4,000-word write-up of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P), a think-tank that I co-founded in 2000 and have since served as President. The report...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in IFC Review on April 18, 2016, and was coauthored by Brian Garst. The public dump of millions of private correspondence and other legal documents as part of the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ leak predictably sparked a media frenzy. In the weeks...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Havens, Taxation
Three years ago, thieves stole a bunch of information from “offshore” service providers in the Cook Islands and British Virgin Islands. This was supposed to be a ground-breaking exposé with huge ramifications, but it turned out to be a tempest in a teapot. As I...
