by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2011 | Economics, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University is a big booster of the discredited notion that foreign aid is a cure-all for poverty in the developing world, but he is now branching out and saying silly things about policy in other areas. In a column for the Financial Times, he...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of tax competition because politicians are less likely to misbehave if the potential victims of plunder have the ability to escape across borders. Here is an excerpt from a superb article by Allister Heath, one of the U.K.’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Hello from the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, a 24-square mile enclave centered around Monte Titano in eastern Italy. I’m here for a conference on “Competition and Alliances among States.” Like many other so-called tax havens, San Marino has been bludgeoned in...
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 | Jun 19, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Tax Competition, Tax Havens
The Freeman has an article by an expert from Bermuda about the importance of giving taxpayers an escape option to curtail the greed of the political elite: The Declaration of Independence had it exactly right: “He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New...
