by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 6, 2011 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Taxation
My friend Dr. Eduardo Morgan Jr. sees first hand in Panama how the OECD works. While hypocritically chastising smaller jurisdictions and ignoring the same behavior from larger members, the bureaucrats in Paris also keep moving the goal posts, always pushing for...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Capital Gains, Government Spending, Government Waste, Tax Competition, Taxation
The so-called Super Committee has been tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years. Though with the President’s recent call for another half-trillion in stimulus that he claims would be payed for, they would need to find $2...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the horrible crime of standing in...
by Kevin Hilferty | Aug 11, 2011 | Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Government Waste
This past week Standard and Poor’s lowered their credit rating for the U.S. for the first time ever amidst debt ceiling debates over the growing federal deficit. Our leaders have nearly all acknowledged that to get the credit rating back to AAA there will need...
by CF&P | Jun 2, 2011 | News, Press Releases
For Immediate Release Thursday, June 2, 2010 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Another Ominous Development: OECD Targets Tax Avoidance at Global Tax Forum (Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 2, 2010) In a remarkable development, the Organization for Economic...