Tag Archives : Jurisdictional Competition
Why Doesn’t Hillary Learn any Lessons from the Slow Suicide of California and other High-Tax States?
More evidence that taxpayers migrate from high-tax states to low-tax states.
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Deconstructing the European Union’s Convoluted New Attack on “Tax Havens”
The irrational anti-tax competition moves of the EU.
read more...Another Encouraging Example of How Tax Competition Thwarts the Greed of the Political Class
Is Europe’s largest bank going to escape from excessive taxes?
read more...A Perfect Example of How Tax Competition Constrains Greedy Government
Misguided attacks on tax competition keep on coming.
read more...If You Want Better Business Tax Policy, Handcuff Politicians with Pro-Growth Forms of Tax Competition
Tax competition is good when it involves lower rates for all taxpayers. Corporate handouts and narrow preferences in the name of tax competition, however, are misguided.
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Bureaucrats at the United Nations Endorse Sweeping New Tax Powers for Politicians
I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. Regular readers know that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is the worst institution from my perspective, followed by the International Monetary Fund. Some folks ask why the United Nations isn’t higher on the list? My answer is simple. The UN has a very statist orientation and it routinely […]
read more...Embarrassment Alert: America’s Tax System Ranks Below Italy, Greece, and Mexico
I’ve complained over and over again that America’s tax code is a nightmare that undermines competitiveness and retards growth. Our aggregate fiscal burden may not be as high as it is for many of our foreign competitors, but high tax rates and poor design mean the system is very punitive on a per-dollar-raised basis. For more information, the Tax Foundation […]
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Is FATCA the Worst Part of the Internal Revenue Code?
The worst part of the tax code is something most Americans have likely never heard of.
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From France to New Jersey, High Tax Rates and Class Warfare Are Economic Poison
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a widespread consensus that high tax rates were economically misguided. Many Democrats, for instance, supported the 1986 Tax Reform Act that lowered the top tax rate from 50 percent to 28 percent (albeit offset by increased double taxation and more punitive depreciation rules). And even in the 1990s, many on […]
read more...Ukraine, Ethnic Division, Decentralization, and Secession
Ukraine is in the news and that’s not a good thing. I’m not a foreign policy expert, to be sure, but it can’t be a positive sign when nations with nuclear weapons start squabbling with each other. And that’s what’s happening now that Russia is supposedly occupying Crimea and perhaps other parts of Ukraine and […]
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