by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
My friends at Americans for Tax Reform have received a bunch of attention for a new report entitled “Win Olympic Gold, Pay the IRS.” In this clever document, they reveal that athletes could face a tax bill – to those wonderful folks at the IRS – of nearly $9,000...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Mitt Romney is being criticized for supporting “territorial taxation,” which is the common-sense notion that each nation gets to control the taxation of economic activity inside its borders. While promoting his own class-warfare agenda, President Obama recently...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I realize it’s a bold assertion, but the $100 million that American taxpayers send to Paris every year to subsidize the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is – on a per-dollar basis – the most destructively wasteful part in the federal budget. This...
by Brian Garst | Jun 5, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
Writing in today’s Washington Times, Richard Rahn addressed the issue of global taxation. As recently described in a CF&P Libertas, the ongoing efforts of international bureaucrats to impose global taxes threatens not just economic prosperity, but also the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Back in April, responding to an article written by Ann Hollingshead for the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development, I wrote a long post defending so-called tax havens. I went through the trouble of a point-by-point response because her article was...
