by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
There’s a supposed expose in the U.K.-based Daily Mail about how major British companies have subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. It even includes this table with the ostensibly shocking numbers. This is quite akin to the propaganda issued by American statists....
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I sympathize with almost all taxpayers, but it’s difficult to feel sorry for government workers who get in trouble with the IRS. Compensation packages for federal bureaucrats are twice as lucrative as those for workers in the productive sector of the economy and their...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
Here’s a Reuters story about the Australian Tax Office harassing Paul Hogan, better known to Americans as Crocodile Dundee, because of a tax dispute. The grinches at the tax office took advantage of Hogan’s return for his mother’s funeral to hold him hostage, refusing...
