by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
The centerpiece of President Trump’s tax plan is a 15 percent corporate tax rate. Republicans in Congress aren’t quite as aggressive. The House GOP plan envisions a 20 percent corporate tax rate, while Senate Republicans have yet to coalesce around a specific plan....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Once of the reasons that tax increases in Washington are such a bad idea (and one of the reasons why a value-added tax is an especially bad idea) is that the prospect of additional tax revenue kills any possibility of genuine entitlement reform. Simply stated,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Supply Side, Taxation
I shared yesterday an example of how a big tax increase on expensive homes led to fewer sales. Indeed, the drop was so pronounced that the government didn’t just collect less money than projected, which is a very common consequence when fiscal burdens increase, but it...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Supply Side, Taxation
In my never-ending strategy to educate policy makers about the Laffer Curve, I generally rely on both microeconomic theory (i.e., people respond to incentives) and real-world examples. And my favorite real-world example is what happened in the 1980s when Reagan cut...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2017 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation, VAT
Back in 2009, I shared the results of a very helpful study by Pierre Bessard of Switzerland’s Liberal Institute (by the way, “liberal” in Europe means pro-market or “classical liberal“). Pierre ranked the then-30 member nations of the Organization for Economic...
