by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2011 | CF&P Foundation Prosperitas Studies, Publications
[PDF Version] May 2011, Vol. XI, Issue I Monitoring the OECD’s Campaign Against Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy: Strategies for Low-Tax Jurisdictions The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has an ongoing...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2011 | Economics, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University is a big booster of the discredited notion that foreign aid is a cure-all for poverty in the developing world, but he is now branching out and saying silly things about policy in other areas. In a column for the Financial Times, he...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of tax competition because politicians are less likely to misbehave if the potential victims of plunder have the ability to escape across borders. Here is an excerpt from a superb article by Allister Heath, one of the U.K.’s...
by CF&P | Mar 1, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Here’s a new mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, narrated by Natasha Montague of Americans for Tax Reform, that explains why the process of tax competition is a critical constraint on the propensity of governments to over-tax and over-spend....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
There’s a supposed expose in the U.K.-based Daily Mail about how major British companies have subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. It even includes this table with the ostensibly shocking numbers. This is quite akin to the propaganda issued by American statists....
