German politicians are notoriously bad on European issues, almost always pushing for more centralization, harmonization, and bureaucracy. So it is surprising to see that the German government is rejecting a Luxembourg proposal to give the EU a direct source of tax revenue. This may just be a case of a stopped clock being right twice […]

This has a similar title to an earlier blog post, but the topic is completely different. The U.K.-based Times has a fascinating story about how tax rates are driving business out of London, thus showing the insanity of class-warfare tax policy. Two excerpts are must reading, though the message will fall on deaf ears at […]

A new survey from International Living says that France has the highest quality of life, followed by Australia and Switzerland. The United States, meanwhile, is in seventh place, behind nations such as Germany, New Zealand, and Luxembourg: To produce this annual Index we consider nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, […]

With Barack Obama planning big tax rate increases in America, it’s useful to see how that policy is working in the United Kingdom. According to the Mayor of London, the answer is not very encouraging. Many successful entrepreneurs and investors are fleeing for other nations, and now companies are joining the rush to the exit. […]

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by 21 of the country’s most influential free-market and taxpayer groups, has sent a letter warning President Obama, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and top Congressional leaders “about the fiscal and economic risks of a value-added tax (VAT).”

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation will co-host a conference on tax competition and financial privacy on October 20, 2009 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. The conference is aimed at educating the public policy community on issues such as tax competition, financial privacy, fiscal sovereignty and corporate taxation.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Global Tax Forum concluded today amidst widespread complaints about the Paris-based bureaucracy’s bad-faith actions. Delegates from low-tax jurisdictions repeatedly remarked that the OECD grossly mischaracterized events in documents that were supposed to summarize prior discussions and form the basis of future reports and actions. Andy Quinlan, President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, commented that, “The OECD engaged in a pervasive pattern of dishonesty in order to advance the bad tax policy of high-tax nations.”

The past several months have witnessed an unfortunate setback in the fight for good tax policy. Bolstered by a shift in the U.S. position from benign neglect to active support, anti-tax competition ideologues have won a somewhat significant victory. Low-tax jurisdictions, faced with direct and indirect threats of sanctions from powerful nations, have been forced to weaken their human-rights policies by agreeing that privacy laws no longer protect foreign investors. Indeed, jurisdictions are being coerced to sign agreements to provide confidential data upon request to at least 12 of their high-tax brethren.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) announced today it will be in Los Cabos, Mexico, next week to help educate delegates at the OECD’s Global Tax Forum about the benefits of tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy.