by Dan Mitchell | May 21, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The Senate is holding a Kangaroo Court designed to smear Apple for not voluntarily coughing up more tax revenue than the company actually owes. Here are four things you need to know. Apple is fully complying with the tax law. There is no suggestion that Apple has done...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I was a bit surprised couple of years ago to read that an American company re-located to Canada to benefit from better tax policy. But I wasn’t totally shocked by the news because Canada has been lowering tax rates, reducing the burden of government spending, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
My friends at Americans for Tax Reform have received a bunch of attention for a new report entitled “Win Olympic Gold, Pay the IRS.” In this clever document, they reveal that athletes could face a tax bill – to those wonderful folks at the IRS – of nearly $9,000...
by Brian Garst | Jul 23, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Mitt Romney is being criticized for supporting “territorial taxation,” which is the common-sense notion that each nation gets to control the taxation of economic activity inside its borders. While promoting his own class-warfare agenda, President Obama recently...
