BEPS and other bad anti-tax competition schemes from the OECD.

There’s a fight over which international bureaucracy will have the biggest role in running the global tax cartel.

The irrational anti-tax competition moves of the EU.

Another tax hiker who demands we do as he says, not as he does.

FATCA throws sand in the gears of global commerce.

Since I’ve been in Washington for nearly three decades, I’m used to foolish demagoguery. But the left’s reaction to corporate inversions takes political rhetoric to a new level of dishonesty. Every study that looks at business taxation reaches the same conclusion, which is that America’s tax system is punitive and anti-competitive. Simply stated, the combination of […]

Last month, I put together a list of six jaw-dropping examples of left-wing hypocrisy, one of which featured Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. He made the list for having the chutzpah to criticize corporate inversions on the basis of supposed economic patriotism, even though he invested lots of money via the Cayman Islands when he was a crony capitalist at Citigroup. But it turns […]

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 “worldwide taxation“). And it’s the worst possible development when governments decide that they should impose […]

A festival of statist hypocrisy

The worst part of the tax code is something most Americans have likely never heard of.