by CF&P | Jan 17, 2012 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Tuesday, January 17, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P Briefs International Businesses on Threats to Tax Competition (Scrub Island, British Virgin Islands Tuesday, January 17, 2012) The...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Dec 1, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
Peter Dunn, warning of the many issues with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, has written a great article at American Thinker called “FATCA: A Ticking Time Bomb for the Economy.” Lawmakers clearly need to reconsider the law and its accompanying...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies. I’ve criticized the United Nations for wanting global taxes. I’ve condemned the International Monetary Fund for promoting bigger government. I’ve even excoriated the largely unknown Basel Committee on Banking Supervision...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Nov 3, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Dr. Andrew P. Morriss of the University of Alabama and Lotta Moberg of George Mason University have produced a new paper titled, ““Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful Tax Competition’,” which thoroughly documents the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
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...