Funding of the OECD should be cutoff until such time as the organization ends its campaign against low-tax jurisdictions and the principles of limited government.

I’ve written several times about a proposed IRS regulation that would force American banks to put foreign law above U.S. law. I’ve repeatedly warned that the scheme, which would force financial institutions to report the deposit interest they pay to foreigners, is bad economic policy, bad regulatory policy, and bad banking policy. My arguments have […]

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) is participating Wednesday in a conference in the British Virgin Islands, where Dan Mitchell and Brian Garst will outline growing threats to international tax competition and business.

I’ve written before about whether California is the Greece of America, in part because of crazy policies such as overpaid bureaucrats and expensive forms of political correctness, And we all know that California has one of the nation’s greediest governments, imposing confiscatory tax rates on a shrinking pool of productive citizens. So it is hardly […]

I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies. I’ve criticized the United Nations for wanting global taxes. I’ve condemned the International Monetary Fund for promoting bigger government. I’ve even excoriated the largely unknown Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for misguided regulations that contributed to the financial crisis. But the worse international bureaucracy, at least when measured […]

Dr. Andrew P. Morriss of the University of Alabama and Lotta Moberg of George Mason University have produced a new paper titled, ““Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful Tax Competition’,” which thoroughly documents the OECD’s anti-tax competition campaign. The paper echoes years of CF&P work in its description of an organization that has […]