The Tea Party Goes Global: The Revolt of the Greek Tax Slaves

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation

The fiscal turmoil in Greece is not about fiscal balance. It’s a fight between looters and moochers such as Olga Stefou, who think taxpayers should endlessly subsidize everything, and the shrinking group of productive people who are pulling the wagon and keeping...

When an American Company Redomiciles to the Cayman Islands, What Lesson Should We Learn?

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation

Another American company has decided to expatriate for tax reasons. This process has been going on for decades, with companies giving up their U.S. charters (a form of business citizenship) and redomiciling in low-tax jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Ireland,...

When Germany and France Both Agree on Something, You Can Safely Assume It Is a Terrible Idea

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’ve joked on many occasions that bipartisanship occurs in Washington when the evil party and the stupid party come up with an idea that is simultaneously malicious and misguided. The international version of two-wrongs-don’t-make-a-right occurs whenever the French...

Another Ominous Development: OECD Targets Tax Avoidance at Global Tax Forum

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...

With the Support of the Obama Administration, Paris-Based OECD Now Wants De Facto World Tax Organization as Part of its Anti-Tax Competition Campaign

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...