by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 21, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in La Prensa (in Spanish) on October 21, 2013. The United States and other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have engaged for years in a hypocritical campaign to punish low-tax jurisdictions for adopting...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 16, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in the Oct. 2013 issue of Offshore Investment, and was coauthored by Brian Garst. [Download PDF] The global economy has benefited tremendously from tax competition. Thanks to the pressure created by capital mobility, numerous governments have...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, VAT
If you have any long-term Japanese investments, sell them soon. In part, that’s because the Japanese Prime Minister announced another Keynesian spending binge earlier this year – even though several so-called stimulus plans in Japan have flopped over the past two...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2013 | Blogs, Taxation
If I had to identify a “least-favorite” international bureaucracy, it almost certainly would be the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD doesn’t waste as much money as the United Nations, it might not cause as much macroeconomic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
What’s the biggest fiscal problem facing the developed world? To an objective observer, the answer is a rising burden of government spending, caused by poorly designed entitlement programs, growing levels of dependency, and unfavorable demographics. The combination of...