by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
People pay every single penny of tax that politicians impose on corporations. The investors that own companies obviously pay (more than one time!) when governments tax profits. The workers employed by companies obviously pay, both directly and indirectly, because of...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is once again pushing for bigger and more intrusive in the United States. The international bureaucracy’s “Economic Survey” of the United States reads like it...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
Since I’m an economist, I generally support competition. But it’s time to admit that competition isn’t always a good idea. Particularly when international bureaucracies compete to see which one can promote the most-destructive pro-tax policies. For instance, I noted...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 30, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
It’s a bad idea when governments demand information on your bank accounts and investments so they can impose economically destructive double taxation. It’s a worse idea when they also demand the right to tax economic activity in other jurisdictions (otherwise known as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
If some special-interest lobbies give money so that a left-wing group can propose something like a value-added tax to finance bigger government, that’s no surprise. And if a bunch of subsidy recipients donate money to Barack Obama or some other statist politician...
