The Center for Tax Competition researches the impact of strong tax competition and the preservation of financial privacy on individual freedom and property.

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  • Tax burden and individual rights in the OECD: an international comparison

    High-tax governments should end their fight against tax competition and "tax havens" and address their own failings.

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  • Why Tax Havens Are a Blessing

    An update on the European countries' and international bureaucrats' crusade against tax havens.

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  • The Use and Abuse of Taxes and Tax Havens

    States, taken as a class, are morally in no position to accuse the Liechtensteins of this world of immorality and of not playing the game.

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  • The Case Against “Tax Harmonisation”: The OECD and EU Initiatives

    Tax competition is a powerful instrument to prevent excessive taxation.

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  • The Threat of Fiscal Harmonization

    Taxation is often the key element in shaping and reshaping political regimes.

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  • Heavenly Tax Havens

    The German government's purchase of data stolen from a Liechtenstein bank has reinvigorated longstanding debates about privacy, law enforcement and international relations.

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