The European Commission’s brilliant plan to make things worse.

Bureaucrats at the IMF and OECD need to please politicians in order to continue living large.

BEPS and other bad anti-tax competition schemes from the OECD.

There’s a fight over which international bureaucracy will have the biggest role in running the global tax cartel.

The irrational anti-tax competition moves of the EU.

Those who recognize that there is a problem are greatly out-numbered by those who want to make the problem worse.

Europe’s large welfare states are dragging the continent down.

Tax competition is good when it involves lower rates for all taxpayers. Corporate handouts and narrow preferences in the name of tax competition, however, are misguided.

The United Nations is not nearly as bad as other international bureaucracies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or the International Monetary Fund. But that’s because the U.N. tends to be completely ineffective. So even when the bureaucrats push for bad policy, they don’t have much ability to move the ball in the wrong direction. But […]

People pay every single penny of tax that politicians impose on corporations. The investors that own companies obviously pay (more than one time!) when governments tax profits. The workers employed by companies obviously pay, both directly and indirectly, because of corporate income tax. And consumers also bear a burden thanks to business taxes that lead to […]