by Dan Mitchell | Jul 30, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
It’s a bad idea when governments demand information on your bank accounts and investments so they can impose economically destructive double taxation. It’s a worse idea when they also demand the right to tax economic activity in other jurisdictions (otherwise known as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
If some special-interest lobbies give money so that a left-wing group can propose something like a value-added tax to finance bigger government, that’s no surprise. And if a bunch of subsidy recipients donate money to Barack Obama or some other statist politician...
by CF&P | Jun 12, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News U.K. Stumbles Into Competitive Tax Policy While a government official frantically points out that “the UK is not a tax haven,” the nation nevertheless is experiencing an investment influx thanks to legal challenges that halted British...
by Dan Mitchell | May 11, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve already written about how the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is heavily subsidized by American taxpayers, is advocating for bigger government. I’m especially irked that the OECD has gotten in bed with nutjobs from...
by CF&P | Apr 29, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing Bad Economic Advice from International Organizations Richard Rahn writes for the Washington Times on the foolishness of continuing to fund organizations that give economic advice that doesn’t work. He sets his...
