by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Okay, I’ll admit the title of this post is an exaggeration. There are lots of things you should know – most bad, though some good – about international bureaucracies. That being said, regular readers know that I get very frustrated with the statist policy agendas of...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 22, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Hill on June 21, 2016. The Washington Post recently featured a 4,000-word write-up of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P), a think-tank that I co-founded in 2000 and have since served as President. The report...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
There are many reasons why I don’t like the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy that ostensibly represents the developed world but in reality is controlled by European welfare states. The main problem is that...
by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) arguably is the worst feature of the internal revenue code. It’s an odious example of fiscal imperialism that is based on a very bad policy agenda. But there is something even worse, a Multilateral Convention on Mutual...
by CF&P | May 12, 2016 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Thursday, May 12, 2016 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Coalition For Tax Competition Letter Urges Congress to Defund the OECD, Oppose BEPS (Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 12, 2016) Led by the Center...