Current Affairs
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Learning from What Works
April 2010
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
March 2009
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
February 2009
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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Why Tax Havens Are a Blessing
January 2009
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
April 2008
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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Heavenly Tax Havens
February 2008
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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Halting global tax tyranny
July 2006
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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Best for Business
October 2005
Which countries do you think have the best business environments?