Are Tax Havens Moral or Immoral?

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development threatened to have me thrown in a Mexican jail for the horrible crime of standing in...

Creating Galt’s Gulch from Scratch?

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

Advocates of limited government love to fantasize. But because we’re strange people, we don’t have ordinary fantasies about supermodels or playing pro baseball. We daydream about a libertarian nirvana, where the rights of individuals are protected, guided by a moral...

When Germany and France Both Agree on Something, You Can Safely Assume It Is a Terrible Idea

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’ve joked on many occasions that bipartisanship occurs in Washington when the evil party and the stupid party come up with an idea that is simultaneously malicious and misguided. The international version of two-wrongs-don’t-make-a-right occurs whenever the French...

With the Support of the Obama Administration, Paris-Based OECD Now Wants De Facto World Tax Organization as Part of its Anti-Tax Competition Campaign

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’ve been battling the Organization for Economic Cooperation for years, ever since the Paris-based bureaucracy unveiled its “harmful tax competition” project in the late 1990s. Controlled by Europe’s high-tax welfare states, the OECD wants to prop up the fiscal...

We Need More Politicians Willing to Resist the Tax Harmonization “Thieves’ Cartel”

by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’m back in Bermuda, but not for sun and fun. Instead, I’m like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike as part of my ongoing effort to thwart high-tax nations in their attacks against tax competition and tax havens at the “Global Tax Forum” of the...