by Brian Garst | Jun 21, 2023 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by IFC Review on June 7, 2023. Efforts to radically reorganise global corporate taxation passed a major milestone when the European Union unanimously agreed to implement Pillar 2, the 15 per cent global minimum tax component of the Organisation...
by Brian Garst | May 30, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation, Uncategorized
We’ve written a lot about efforts by the OECD to form an international tax cartel and raise global taxes. A key component of those ongoing efforts is the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project that seeks to radically rewrite the rules for income taxes...
by Dan Mitchell | May 28, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Usually with regard to government-run health care, folks on the left commonly criticize the United States for being the “only country” that does not provide this or that handout from the government. That should not be a persuasive argument without first...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Nearly 13 years ago, I narrated this video about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy that uses American tax dollars to advocate for bigger government and higher taxes. Everything I said in that video is...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2023 | Blogs
There are some policy fights that focus on technical disagreements (for instance, how much do deadweight losses increase when tax rates go up?) and other policy fights that involve moral disagreements (for instance, should drugs be...
