It is a very dangerous idea to give politicians carte blanche access to everyone’s financial data.

A conference starts the pushback against global tax bullies, EU moves to limit tax competition, and fallout from China’s corruption crackdown.

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 them two years ago. …the Tax Justice Network [is] […]

This article appeared in La Prensa.

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 leftists also are bizarrely focused on sex. Only […]

This article appeared in PolicyMic.

Since one of my main priorities is to defend tax competition and tax havens, I’m always delighted to see others jump in the fight to defend fiscal sovereignty. Especially when those people clearly understand that so-called tax havens are necessary to restrain the compulsive tendency of “onshore” politicians to over-tax and over-spend. Pierre Bessard of […]

Opponents of tax competition have long argued that the need to combat tax evasion justified aggressive and counter-productive policies designed to eviscerate tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty.

Over a week ago I predicted in an editorial that there would be continued attacks on financial privacy and tax competition, noting that attacks on Romney’s financial holdings were “part of this ongoing effort to undermine tax competition and make it easier for politicians to pursue onerous tax-and-spend policies.” I even singled out the Tax […]

This article appeared in The Daily Caller.