Three Simple Rules to Keep Republicans from Being Seduced by Dishonest and Orwellian Word Games from the Left on Tax Reform and Tax Increases

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation

Those who had the misfortune of seeing President Obama go after “tax breaks for corporate jets” as part of his press conference may be wondering why he was attacking a provision that was in his so-called stimulus and enacted by a Democratic-controlled Congress in...

FATCA Law is an International Version of Obamacare’s 1099 Provision, a Nightmare for Cross-Border Economic Activity that Is Undermining Investment in America

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation

One of the tax increases buried in Obamacare was an onerous and intrusive “1099″ scheme that would have required businesses to collect tax identification numbers for just about any vendor and then send paperwork to the IRS whenever they did more than $600 of business....

The Not-so-Secret Left-Wing Agenda to Increase the Burden of Government – and How to Stop It

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, VAT

The main political goal of the left is to seduce Republicans into supporting higher taxes. Bluntly stated, all of their fiscal policy goals require more tax revenue coming to Washington. The most important factor (from their perspective) is that they can’t make...

With the Support of the Obama Administration, Paris-Based OECD Now Wants De Facto World Tax Organization as Part of its Anti-Tax Competition Campaign

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’ve been battling the Organization for Economic Cooperation for years, ever since the Paris-based bureaucracy unveiled its “harmful tax competition” project in the late 1990s. Controlled by Europe’s high-tax welfare states, the OECD wants to prop up the fiscal...

We Need More Politicians Willing to Resist the Tax Harmonization “Thieves’ Cartel”

by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

I’m back in Bermuda, but not for sun and fun. Instead, I’m like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike as part of my ongoing effort to thwart high-tax nations in their attacks against tax competition and tax havens at the “Global Tax Forum” of the...