by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve written many times about how investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners and other successful people migrate from high-tax states to low-tax states. Well, the same thing happens internationally, as France’s greedy politicians are now learning. It’s a lot...
by Brian Garst | May 9, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The Marketplace Fairness Act, a misguided attempt to allow expanded sales tax collection online, passed the Senate on Monday, though its fate in the House is less clear. Also less clear is whether the law passes constitutional muster. At the very least it severely...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | May 9, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Harbour Times on May 9, 2013, and was coauthored by Brian Garst. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has tried numerous strategies to compel low-tax nations to raise tax rates and eliminate financial privacy, or to...
by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m either a total optimist or a glutton for punishment. I recently explained the benefits of “tax havens” for the unfriendly readers of the New York Times. Now I’m defending a different form of tax competition for CNN, another news outlet that leans left. In this...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2013 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
I often argue that we need to preserve tax competition and tax havens in order to limit the greed of the political class. Without some sort of external constraint, they will over-tax and over-spend, creating the kind of downward economic spiral already happening in...
