by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
Since I’m an economist, I generally support competition. But it’s time to admit that competition isn’t always a good idea. Particularly when international bureaucracies compete to see which one can promote the most-destructive pro-tax policies. For instance, I noted...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 30, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
It’s a bad idea when governments demand information on your bank accounts and investments so they can impose economically destructive double taxation. It’s a worse idea when they also demand the right to tax economic activity in other jurisdictions (otherwise known as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
One of the worst things about working in Washington is that it’s so easy to get frustrated about the fact-free nature of political debates. For instance, there’s now a big controversy about companies “re-domiciling” or “inverting” from the United States to lower-tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I’ve had some fun over the years by pointing out that Paul Krugman has butchered numbers when writing about fiscal policy in nations such as France, Estonia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. So I shouldn’t be surprised that he wants to catch me making an error. But...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
In some sense, there’s nothing remotely funny about the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party organizations. It is disgusting that a powerful arm of the government became a corrupt vehiclefor illegal partisan politics. But it’s better to laugh rather than cry, so let’s enjoy...
