by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Health Care, Tax Competition, Taxation
Exactly one year ago, we looked at the best and worst policy developments of 2013. Now it’s time for a look back at 2014 to see what’s worth celebrating and what are reasons for despair. Here’s the good news for 2014. 1. Gridlock – I’ve been arguing for nearly...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Since I spend considerable time defending tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy, people sometimes think I can give competent advice on how best to protect one’s income from the IRS. Hardly. Like most people in Washington, I’m all theory and no...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 6, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve argued that subsidies for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are the most destructively wasteful outlays in the federal budget. At least on a per-dollar-spent basis. But what if we did the same exercise on the tax side of...
by CF&P | Apr 22, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News U.S. Ranks 94th of 100 Tax Systems The Tax Attractiveness Index has given the U.S. tax code poor marks. Robert W. Wood, writing in Forbes, blames America’s uncompetitive tax system for corporate tax avoidance....
by Brian Garst | Apr 8, 2014 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review, Second Quarter 2014, Issue 35. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) claims that new rules in its recently published Common Reporting Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account...