U.S. Needs to Ditch the OECD

by Kevin Hilferty | Aug 11, 2011 | Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Government Waste

This past week Standard and Poor’s lowered their credit rating for the U.S. for the first time ever amidst debt ceiling debates over the growing federal deficit. Our leaders have nearly all acknowledged that to get the credit rating back to AAA there will need...

Another Ominous Development: OECD Targets Tax Avoidance at Global Tax Forum

by CF&P | Jun 2, 2011 | News, Press Releases

For Immediate Release Thursday, June 2, 2010 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Another Ominous Development: OECD Targets Tax Avoidance at Global Tax Forum (Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 2, 2010) In a remarkable development, the Organization for Economic...

With the Support of the Obama Administration, Paris-Based OECD Now Wants De Facto World Tax Organization as Part of its Anti-Tax Competition Campaign

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’ve been battling the Organization for Economic Cooperation for years, ever since the Paris-based bureaucracy unveiled its “harmful tax competition” project in the late 1990s. Controlled by Europe’s high-tax welfare states, the OECD wants to prop up the fiscal...

CF&P Warns Against OECD Back-Door Scheme to Create a De Facto World Tax Organization

by CF&P | Jun 1, 2011 | News, Press Releases

For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 1, 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P Warns Against OECD Back-Door Scheme to Create a De Facto World Tax Organization (Hamilton, Bermuda, Wednesday, June 1, 2011) The Center for Freedom and Prosperity, in...

We Need More Politicians Willing to Resist the Tax Harmonization “Thieves’ Cartel”

by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’m back in Bermuda, but not for sun and fun. Instead, I’m like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike as part of my ongoing effort to thwart high-tax nations in their attacks against tax competition and tax havens at the “Global Tax Forum” of the...