by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jan 31, 2020 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
My colleague Dan Mitchell recently provided any overview of the tax fight between the U.S. and the E.U. over taxing digital businesses. He aptly summarized: “all you really need to understand is that European politicians view American tech companies as a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Free markets and limited government are a tried-and-true recipe for growth and prosperity. Indeed, it’s the only way for a poor nation to become a rich nation. Those are the policies that helpd North America and Western Europe become rich in the 1800s and it’s how...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 13, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation
Ever since the bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development launched their attack on so-called harmful tax competition back in the 1990s, I’ve warned that the goal has been to create a global tax cartel. Sort of an “OPEC for politicians.”...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m a big fan of globalization, so does that make me a globalist? That depends on what is meant by that term. If it means free trade and peaceful interaction with other nations, the answer is yes. But if it means global governance by anti-market bureaucracies such as...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Speaking in Europe earlier this year, I tried to explain the entire issue of tax competition is less than nine minutes. To some degree, those remarks were an updated version of a video I narrated back in 2010. You’ll notice that I criticized the Organization for...
