by Dan Mitchell | May 11, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
When I write about America’s awful tax code, I generally focus on anti-growth policies such as high tax rates, the bias against saving and investment, and nightmarish and costly complexity. But there’s actually a fourth problem of “worldwide taxation”...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 14, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
When I give speeches and presentations about fiscal policy, I explain that a sensible tax system should be based on these principles. Low marginal tax rates on productive behavior. No double taxation of saving and investment. No corrupt and distorting...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The International Monetary Fund’s dogmatic support for higher taxes and bigger government makes it “the dumpster fire of the global economy.” Wherever IMF bureaucrats go, it seems they push for high-tax policies that will weaken growth. That’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2021 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
On the rare occasions when I write about the Supreme Court, it’s usually to grouse that the Justices don’t defend the Constitution’s limits on the federal government. For example, the Court engaged in tortured reasoning to rule in favor of...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
A few years ago, I put together a basic primer on corporate taxation. Everything I wrote is still relevant, but I didn’t include much discussion about international topics. In part, that’s because those issues are even more wonky and more boring than domestic issues...
