The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation released today a policy brief highlighting the statist agenda of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and how the organization works against the interests of U.S. taxpayers.

I sometimes make fun of the English, for reasons ranging from asinine laws to milquetoast politicians to horrid healthcare policy. But at least some U.K. elected officials are willing to stand up for tax competition and fiscal sovereignty by defending low-tax jurisdictions. In previous posts, I’ve applauded Dan Hannan and Godfrey Bloom for great speeches […]

Last year, I came up with a saying that “Bad Government Policy Begets More Bad Government Policy” and labeled it “Mitchell’s Law” during a bout of narcissism. There are lots of examples of this phenomenon, such as the misguided War on Drugs being a precursor to intrusive, costly, and ineffective money laundering policies. Or how […]

I wrote last week about how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy, has launched a new campaign to promote class-warfare tax policy. I’ve since learned that the OECD’s effort is even more objectionable than I first reported. For instance, the bureaucrats earlier this month organized a fancy three-day conference in […]

To be blunt, I’m not a big fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But my animosity isn’t because OECD bureaucrats threatened to have me arrested and thrown in a Mexican jail. Instead, I don’t like the Paris-based bureaucracy because it pushes a statist agenda of bigger government. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity […]

I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies. I’ve criticized the United Nations for wanting global taxes. I’ve condemned the International Monetary Fund for promoting bigger government. I’ve even excoriated the largely unknown Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for misguided regulations that contributed to the financial crisis. But the worse international bureaucracy, at least when measured […]

Dr. Andrew P. Morriss of the University of Alabama and Lotta Moberg of George Mason University have produced a new paper titled, ““Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful Tax Competition’,” which thoroughly documents the OECD’s anti-tax competition campaign. The paper echoes years of CF&P work in its description of an organization that has […]

“Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful Tax Competition’,” documents the transformation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from its “initial focus on finding solutions to problems that impeded international economic activity” into an organization chiefly concerned with enabling a few high-tax countries to collect revenues at the expense of other, lower tax, countries.

In a letter released today, the Coalition for Tax Competition asked members of Congress to cut the $100 million taxpayer subsidy to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Citing the OECD’s record as an opponent of tax competition, the letter argues that US taxpayers should not be funding an organization which works against their interests by promoting a big government agenda.

[PDF Version] October 25, 2011 Dear U. S. Senators and U. S. Representatives: As part of an overall effort to help control the size of government, we believe American taxpayers should not subsidize the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Even if we had a balanced budget, OECD funding would be contrary to US interests. The […]