by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the horrible crime of standing in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
