by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2010 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Tax Competition, Taxation
Here are a handful of the posters being used in the United Kingdom to fight the perversely-destructive proposal to increase tax rates on capital gains. (for an explanation of why the tax should be abolished, see here) Which one is your favorite? I’m partial to the...
by CF&P | Oct 13, 2010 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Wednesday, October 13, 2010 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P Renews Call to Eliminate Taxpayer Subsidies for OECD (Washington, D.C., Wednesday, October 13, 2010) The Center for...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
By every possible metric, one would expect corporate tax rates to be higher in Europe. The burden of government spending is higher across the Atlantic, so that presumably would lead to pressure for a higher corporate tax rate. The affinity for class warfare and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Taxation
Even though he’s allowing the budget to grow twice as fast as inflation, some people seem to think the new U.K. Prime Minster is a fiscal conservative. I’m skeptical. Not only is spending rising much too fast (there are promises of more restraint in the future, but...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m in Singapore for two days to help fight the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a statist international bureaucracy based in Paris. The OECD has something called a global tax forum, the purpose of which is to harass so-called tax havens in hopes...
