Tag Archives : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Prosperity Update December 2, 2014
The OECD shills for big government in the US, an update in tax collectors war on low-tax jurisdictions, and how to fight back.
read more...If You Want Better Business Tax Policy, Handcuff Politicians with Pro-Growth Forms of Tax Competition
Tax competition is good when it involves lower rates for all taxpayers. Corporate handouts and narrow preferences in the name of tax competition, however, are misguided.
read more...Are International Bureaucrats Winning the War Against Low-Tax Jurisdictions and Fiscal Competition?
This article appeared in IFC Review.
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Will the Offshore Industry Go Quietly Into the Night?
This article appeared in Offshore Investment.
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The OECD’s Scheme to Raise Tax Burdens on Workers, Consumers, and Investors
People pay every single penny of tax that politicians impose on corporations. The investors that own companies obviously pay (more than one time!) when governments tax profits. The workers employed by companies obviously pay, both directly and indirectly, because of corporate income tax. And consumers also bear a burden thanks to business taxes that lead to […]
read more...Financed by American Tax Dollars, the OECD Endorses Obama’s Statist Agenda for the U.S. Economy
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is once again pushing for bigger and more intrusive in the United States. The international bureaucracy’s “Economic Survey” of the United States reads like it was produced by some interns at the Democratic National Committee. Since the OECD […]
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Do You Want the Global Destruction of Financial Privacy to Enable Higher Tax Rates and Bigger Government?
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 “worldwide taxation“). And it’s the worst possible development when governments decide that they should impose […]
read more...Subsidized Statism: Americans Are Paying IMF and OECD Bureaucrats so They Can Agitate for Obama’s Agenda
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 because they hope for new programs, that’s also standard procedure in DC. I’ll fight these […]
read more...Prosperity Update June 12, 2014
Businesses coming and going, obstacles for the OECD’s latest attack on tax competition, and more FATCA fallout.
read more...A Taxapalooza: More Taxpayer-Subsidized Agitation for Class Warfare by the OECD
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 the Occupy movement and also joined forces with the union bosses to push for statist policies. So I guess I shouldn’t […]
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