All Posts Tagged With: "corporate taxation"
Sales, Flat, or Spherical, Tax Reform Isn’t the Answer
Lately there has been a flurry of interest in tax reform, typically aimed at making compliance less onerous, removing the incentive for special-interest lobbying, and reducing the size and intrusiveness of the tax-collection agency. While few people will reject those ends, that does not imply that the attempt to achieve them is the optimal use [...]
1Nov2006 | Gene Callahan | 13 comments | ContinuedGovernment Should Regulate Charities?
Forbes magazine editor and columnist William Baldwin is upset that nonprofit charitable corporations are able to evade accountability, pay their executives too much, and engage in shady bookkeeping. He wants something done about it: “This country’s several million nonprofits escape with only the sketchiest of oversight by the Internal Revenue Service. Revenue agents figure they [...]
1Dec2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedCorporations Should Pay Higher Taxes?
The May 18 Washington Post article “Why Companies Pay Less” is less remarkable for what it says than for who is saying it. Its author is not Ralph Nader or Robert McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice. It is Steven Rattner, a well-known investment banker and a founder of the Quadrangle Group, a large private [...]
1Nov2004 | Roy Cordato | 7 comments | ContinuedBermuda, Freedom, and Economic Growth
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the presumptive presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, says he wants to end Bermuda’s offshore “creed of greed” and crack down on the “corporate Benedict Arnolds” who move offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes. (The statements are taken from the Bermuda Mid Ocean News, January 23, 2004.) Kerry said, “I [...]
1Jun2004 | Robert Stewart | 0 comments | ContinuedPatriotic Tax Avoiders
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Little upsets politicians more than people attempting to escape their control. So it is with U.S. companies that have fled overseas, now attacked as being unpatriotic and worse by Washington pols. Over the [...]
1Jan2003 | Doug Bandow | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Tax Code: Now That’s Outrageous!
If you’ve ever had the sinking suspicion that many in the mainstream media just don’t get it, then the September 2002 issue of Reader’s Digest was just for you. In its pages, conservative columnist Tucker Carlson penned his mighty attack on American business under the title “Artful Dodgers,” in the “That’s Outrageous!” department of the [...]
1Dec2002 | Scott McPherson | 0 comments | Continued-
The Latest
Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
Update below. Controversy rages over the Obama administration’s mandate that all employers – including... Read More
The Snow Plowers’ Petition
The following might have happened in a small college town in upstate New York… In a cold and snowy... Read More
Super Bowl versus Education?
In the spirit of Super Bowl weekend I’d like to deconstruct a Facebook status update that a friend... Read More
Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, “[w]e are... Read More
Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
Picking on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the largest participation sports on the Internet.... Read More
