Perhaps the most odious example of bad OECD policy is the campaign against tax competition.
Their latest move: announcing that they want to end "tax competition" between EU members.
Tax competition almost certainly is the biggest impediment that now exists to restrain big government.
Without globalization and the tax competition it enables, income taxes would be far higher today.
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But most important, tax policy will get worse everywhere if tax competition is undermined.
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Nonetheless, tax competition remains a bigger problem for European countries than for the rest of the OECD.
In other words, the OECD wants to undo taxpayer gains made in recent decades thanks to tax competition.
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OECD's officials are adamant that they are not against tax competition as such, merely against the harmful variety.
Once again, the single currency itself has helped to spark this tax competition.
That is why the OECD, whose membership consists largely of European welfare states, is once again attacking tax competition.
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The Bush administration also complained that the project would stifle tax competition, so the focus was narrowed to better information-gathering and exchange.
Tax competition is the only force working on the side of taxpayers, which explains the organized campaign by global elite to defeat it.
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Bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conjured a problem to justify a new assault on tax competition.
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But at the same time he wants to set up international tribunals to rule on unfair tax competition, for example, or health standards.
This week, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal detailed a jobs strategy that could take the Pelican State into the Final Four of tax competition.
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But France, Germany and Belgium have accused the newcomers of unfair tax competition, and called for minimum rates for corporate taxes across the Union.
Arbitrary apportionment erodes incentives for investment in jurisdictions with better tax policy, undermining tax competition and thereby leading to an increase in global tax burdens.
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At a time when the European Union is still pressing Britain for tax harmonisation, gambling is a rare reminder of the benefits of tax competition.
It discourages tax competition and eagerly exports its protectionist-by-another-name antitrust rules.
It also called for a clampdown on what it called "harmful tax competition", where member states compete with each other to provide the most benign tax environment.
Combined with the Gewerbesteuer, a court-protected local trade tax, this has meant that politicians are limited in their ability to respond to tax competition without losing revenue.
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This is why there is no international standard on tax evasion or tax competition along the lines of international standards on bank regulation or fighting financial crime.
Consider that tax competition has spurred OECD governments to cut their corporate tax rates from an average of 48 percent in the early 1980s to 24 percent today.
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The video also discusses how politicians are attacking tax competition.
Besides, tax competition could undermine budgetary stability in individual countries.
If taxpayers want to preserve gains made thanks to tax competition, they must be weary of the threat posed by global tax cartels though organizations such as the OECD.
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Though his definition of harmful tax competition does not extend to basic rates of corporation tax, it would still target national tax breaks aimed at bringing in foreign investors.
The commission says this may reflect harmful tax competition.
The region may not be far away from a potentially harmful bout of tax competition, which would no doubt attract the ire of more established EU members such as Germany and France.
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