taxation

"Tobacco counterfeiting has been a problem ever since tobacco was commercialized, but the French government’s aggressive anti-tobacco tax policy has made the situation considerably worse."

The income tax is enshrined into law an idea that stands in total contradiction to the driving force behind the American Revolution and the whole idea of freedom itself. We desperately need a serious national movement to get rid of it – not reform it, not replace it, no flatten it or refocus its sting from this group to that. It just needs to go.
 

I’ve been at the United Nations this week and believe me, there’s nobody on the side of taxpayers or the private sector here. Here's what the bureaucrats are getting wrong.

International bureaucracies are trying to convince poor nations, which already suffer from bad policy, that they can succeed by imposing additional bad fiscal policy and then magically hope that growth will materialize.

If you've been working hard this past year and have either joined the ranks of the middle class or otherwise moved yourself up the ladder, the government is about to penalize you for your hard work with its progressive tax system.

Connecticut was a tax haven in the North East until 1991, when it enacted an income tax that has become more and more progressive over the years. The result? Citizens fleeing the state for more tax-friendly ones and, ironically, less revenue for Connecticut.

And while we're at it, we should repeal the 3.8 percent Obamacare surtax on capital gains and dividends, allow for immediate expensing, and move to a territorial tax system like almost every other developed nation has.

Average corporate tax rates in Europe and Asia are far lower than in the United States and a “business taxes only” agenda could possibly get some Democrats on board.

(ANTIMEDIA) A new meme has been making the rounds on the internet, alluding to the American government as “the crown.” While at first glance this may appear confusing considering America is a “democracy” (or “republic,” depending on who you ask), the ‘If it pleases the crown’ meme is actually making a radical point.

Guest post by R. SRIVATSAN Reflections on the many paradoxes of the demonetization process: the schizophrenia of the BJP, the desire of the well to do, the baffling sacrifice of the have nots, the faults and fault lines that propagate through our society in crisis. Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley, in their brilliant strategy to […]