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 Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 24, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I’ve argued repeatedly that efforts like FATCA and the OECD’s Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters pose a substantial threat to financial and taxpayer privacy. In an excellent commentary at The Daily Signal today,...
by CF&P | Jul 22, 2014 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Tuesday, July 22, 2014 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Statement from CF&P President on OECD’s Global Standard for Automatic Exchange of Tax Information (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 22,...
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...
by CF&P | Jun 12, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News U.K. Stumbles Into Competitive Tax Policy While a government official frantically points out that “the UK is not a tax haven,” the nation nevertheless is experiencing an investment influx thanks to legal challenges that halted British...
