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Become a FanThe Cook Islands: An Offshore Financial Haven the US Can’t Crack
Friday, January 27th, 2012Though remote, the Cook Islands are one of the strongest offshore financial havens in the world, with unparalleled security for your assets.
Obama Fact Check: State of the Union, Corporate Taxes
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Commentary by Chris Edwards, The Cato Institute. Chris is the co-author, with Dan Mitchell, of Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It. Let’s do some fact checking on President Obama’s corporate tax comments in last night’s State of the Union. Claim: “Right now, companies get tax [...]
ABC’s Nightline Airs Shameful “Tax Haven” Smear on Mitt Romney
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Brian Ross’s “investigative” piece on tax havens was a clear distortion of American tax law, and an obvious smear on Mitt Romney.
Debt Does Matter
Monday, January 23rd, 2012I know from your emails that I have a group of regular readers, and as such I don’t want to reward you with boredom and/or too much repetition. But I feel duty bound to return to a topic I have addressed many times, the U.S. national debt, if only in an effort to raise your [...]
ABC News: Bias Against Romney and Tax Havens
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012As my readers know I have reprinted Dan Mitchell’s comments in this space many times. But Dan is not just the Cato Institute’s leading economic voice; he also has a personal blog, International Liberty that you should bookmark for future reference. Here is Dan’s blog for January 19th in which he pays a much appreciated [...]
Tax Havens Aren’t a Myth
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Tax havens such as the Isle of Man and Guernsey remain strong offshore options, despite political fire on both sides of the Atlantic.
Beware the IRS Amnesty
Friday, January 13th, 2012The IRS is reinstating its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP), but don’t be so quick to trust their generosity…
Numbers Game: 34 Shocking Facts about U.S. Debt
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012I have often warned about danger of the U.S. National Debt. Recently I came across an arresting set of numbers published in the Economic Collapse Blog, a blog new to me and worth considering. Thirty years ago the U.S. debt was a crisis out of control. Now that debt is 15 times larger and government [...]
Bankrupt Greek Government Rewards Pedophiles with Disability Payments
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012As my readers know I have reprinted Dan Mitchell’s comments in this space many times. But Dan is not just the Cato Institute’s leading economic voice; he also has a personal blog, International Liberty that you should bookmark for future reference. Here is Dan’s blog for today that gives new meaning to that old saying: [...]
Sarkozy’s Terrible Tobin Tax
Monday, January 9th, 2012French president Nicolas Sarkosy has never met a tax he didn’t like — or a tax haven he didn’t hate. At this moment Sarkozy’s government is pushing for a European financial transactions tax, even though Germany opposes it. In the past Sarkosy has advocated a worldwide tax on every currency and financial transaction and even [...]
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