by CF&P | Apr 15, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News New OECD Rules Threaten Competition CF&P’s Brian Garst writes in Cayman Financial Review on the downsides of new OECD rules. Under the guise of reducing tax evasion, international tax collectors are dismantling tax competition and...
by Brian Garst | Apr 8, 2014 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review, Second Quarter 2014, Issue 35. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) claims that new rules in its recently published Common Reporting Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
I’m frequently baffled at the stupidity of Republicans. When they took control of Congress back in 1994, for instance, they had unrestricted ability to get rid of the bureaucrats that generated bad economic analysis at both the Joint Committee on Taxation and...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 16, 2014 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Forbes on March 16, 2014 Tax administration is experiencing a global upheaval. The 2010 passage of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) – which includes costly demands on foreign financial institutions to report information on US...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
What’s the defining characteristic of our political masters? Going all the way back to when they ran for student council in 6th grade, is it a craven desire to say or do anything to get elected? Is it the corrupt compulsion to trade earmarks, loopholes, and favors in...
