by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2024 | Blogs, Financial Privacy
Earlier this year, I began a column about anti-money laundering laws with four observations. As a libertarian, I don’t like that the government forces banks to spy on customers. As an economist, I don’t like that these laws don’t come close to passing a...
by CF&P | Nov 9, 2015 | News, Prosperity Updates
BEPS News… Panama Conference to Address Global Tax Concerns On Thursday, November 19th, representatives will meet in Panama to discuss how to protect their nations from global tax bullies. Dan Mitchell and Andrew Quinlan will speak on behalf of CF&P. See...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
To put it mildly, I’m not a fan of the so-called Tax Justice Network. In a moment of typical understatement, I referred to the U.K.-based group as “…a bunch of crazy Euro-socialists.” And to give you an idea of why I don’t like them, here’s some of what I wrote about...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 21, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in La Prensa (in Spanish) on October 21, 2013. The United States and other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have engaged for years in a hypocritical campaign to punish low-tax jurisdictions for adopting...
by Dan Mitchell | May 1, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
I thought conservatives were the ones with an unseemly fixation on sex. They’re supposed to be the Puritans who, in the words of Mencken, have a “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Maybe that’s true in a few cases, but it also appears that some...
