by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
As a Yankees fan, it was particularly exciting that Derek Jeter became only the second player to get his 3000th hit with a home run. As a student of human nature, it was remarkable that the fan who caught the ball, Christian Lopez, returned it to Jeter instead of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
One of the tax increases buried in Obamacare was an onerous and intrusive “1099″ scheme that would have required businesses to collect tax identification numbers for just about any vendor and then send paperwork to the IRS whenever they did more than $600 of business....
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Taxation
Read it and weep. Or maybe I should say look at it and weep. I suppose this is a good time to recycle my flat tax video. I don’t mention this in the video, but Hong Kong’s flat tax system, which has been around for more than 60 years, requires less than 200 pages....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Regulations, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
There hasn’t been much good economic news in recent years, but one bright spot for the economy is that the United States is a haven for foreign investors and this has helped attract more than $10 trillion to American capital markets according to Commerce Department...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I suppose there are some good jokes to make about Pakistan employing transgender tax collectors in an attempt to coerce more money from taxpayers, but I’m enough of a policy wonk to have serious questions about the system. First, why does the government need to...
