by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’ve been battling the Organization for Economic Cooperation for years, ever since the Paris-based bureaucracy unveiled its “harmful tax competition” project in the late 1990s. Controlled by Europe’s high-tax welfare states, the OECD wants to prop up the fiscal...
by CF&P | Jun 1, 2011 | News, Press Releases
For Immediate Release Wednesday, June 1, 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P Warns Against OECD Back-Door Scheme to Create a De Facto World Tax Organization (Hamilton, Bermuda, Wednesday, June 1, 2011) The Center for Freedom and Prosperity, in...
by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m back in Bermuda, but not for sun and fun. Instead, I’m like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike as part of my ongoing effort to thwart high-tax nations in their attacks against tax competition and tax havens at the “Global Tax Forum” of the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve remarked before about how I get especially upset when well-to-do people figure out ways of ripping off taxpayers. Redistribution from rich to poor is not a good idea, but it is far more offensive when the coercive power of government is used to transfer money...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Taxation
One of the biggest threats against global prosperity is the anti-tax competition project of a Paris-based international bureaucracy known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD, acting at the behest of the European welfare states that...