by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
My long-running feud with the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development could be categorized as a fight over tax compliance. The bureaucrats at the OECD say that financial privacy must be eviscerated and the fiscal sovereignty must be wiped...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Since I consider myself the world’s biggest advocate for tax competition and tax havens (even when it’s risky), I’m always on the lookout for new material to share. So I was delighted to see a new monograph from the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs on the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I almost feel guilty when I criticize the garbled economic thoughts of Pope Francis. After all, he was influenced by Peronist ideology as a youngster, so he wasprobably a lost cause from the beginning. Moreover, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have already dissected...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
According to bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, so-called tax havens are terrible and should be shut down. Their position is grossly hypocritical since they get tax-free salaries while pushing for higher taxes on...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
The late Mancur Olsen was a very accomplished academic economist who described the unfortunate tendency of vote-seeking governments to behave like “stationary bandits,” seeking to extract the maximum amount of money from taxpayers. I’m not nearly as sophisticated, so...
