by Brian Garst | Sep 16, 2016 | Blogs, Europe, Tax Competition, Taxation
To justify its recent $14.5 billion ruling against Apple, the EU claimed that Apple benefited from “a significant advantage over other businesses that are subject to the same national taxation rules.” If they had provided any evidence of a special...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Like all good libertarians, I hate waiting in government-mandated lines. Heck, you don’t even have to be a curmudgeonly libertarian to have unpleasant thoughts about the Post Office or Department of Motor Vehicles (not to mention the virtual lines that exist for...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 22, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Hill on June 21, 2016. The Washington Post recently featured a 4,000-word write-up of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P), a think-tank that I co-founded in 2000 and have since served as President. The report...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
When I was younger, my left-wing friends said conservatives unfairly attacked them for being unpatriotic and anti-American simply because they disagreed on how to deal with the Soviet Union. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Last decade, a Treasury Department...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
I sometimes wonder if I was put on this planet to defend tax competition and tax havens. I argue for fiscal sovereignty, good tax policy, and financial privacy to the denizens of Capitol Hill, both in writing and in person. I make the same arguments for readers of the...
