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

World

  • Learning from What Works

    The Swiss and other lower-tax states provide the necessary competition to keep the high-tax states from totally oppressing their citizens.

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  • In Defense of Tax Havens

    Tax protectionism should be rejected because it is at least as destructive to economic growth and job creation as are tariffs on goods and services.

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  • Banking confidentiality: a moral imperative

    Banking confidentiality is moral because it is a consequence of a right to privacy that goes without saying in other fields.

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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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  • Halting global tax tyranny

    Should the U.N. be able to tax you? Over the last several years, officials at the U.N. and other international organizations have been hatching schemes to directly tax the world's people.

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  • From Taxation to Justice

    Can taxes be just? If yes, which tax system would it be? If no, what are the alternatives? This award-winning essay provides a far-reaching, critical analysis on the controversial issue of taxation and justice.

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  • Best for Business

    Which countries do you think have the best business environments?

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  • The Benefits of Tax Competition

    Richard Teather addresses the economic arguments that are used to support attacks on tax competition and shows how unsound they are.

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