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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  • Individual Rights and the Fight Against “Tax Evasion”

    The emergence of a global government cartel without any restrictions to tax and spend their citizens' wealth would lead to a world that is less free and less prosperous.

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  • The CCCTB: An instance of the EU's Icarus Complex?

    The EU is flying perilously close to the Sun in matters financial, but unfortunately this pattern seems to repeat itself in other areas as well.

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  • Tax Competition: A Blessing

    Tax «harmonization» or standardization is often presented as an alternative to the diversity of tax systems. This paper reviews the evidence and finds that the costs of «harmonization» could be unexpectedly high.

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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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