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Reprinted from Tax Notes Int´l, April 9, 2012, p. 139
By Bruce Zagaris
Bruce Zagaris is a partner of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington, D.C. and a writter-editor for The International Enforcement Law Reporter (www.ielr.com). Mr. Zagari´s practice includes structuring international business transactions and specially international […]
Published: Tuesday, 21 Feb 2012 By: Scott Cohn Senior Correspondent, CNBC
Shielding assets from the tax man or from overly inquisitive regulators is a time-honored strategy for the wealthy. Some turn to secretive financial havens like Switzerland or the Cayman Islands.
Or there’s always Fernley, Nevada. That’s right, Fernley, Nevada—a small community of about 20,000 […]
(Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 21, 2012) The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by 23 of the country’s most influential free market and taxpayer rights organizations, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging withdrawal of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulation that would discourage capital from the U.S. economy and weaken the […]
I’m not a big fan of Mitt Romney. I hammered him the day before Christmas for being open to a value-added tax, and criticized him in previous posts for his less-than-stellar record on healthcare, his weakness on Social Security reform, his anemic list of proposed budget savings, and his reprehensible support for ethanol subsidies.
But […]
From Bloomberg News
On either side of a two-lane road and surrounded by the lush green mountains of Villalba in central Puerto Rico, stand a pair of manufacturing plants owned by Medtronic Inc. (MDT), the world’s biggest maker of heart-rhythm devices.
Medtronic does more than half of its $16 billion in annual sales of pacemakers, […]
(Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011) “Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful Tax Competition’,” documents the transformation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from its “initial focus on finding solutions to problems that impeded international economic activity” into an organization chiefly concerned with enabling a few high-tax countries to collect […]
By Andrew Quinlan
My friend Dr. Eduardo Morgan Jr. sees first hand in Panama how the OECD works. While hypocritically chastising smaller jurisdictions and ignoring the same behavior from larger members, the bureaucrats in Paris also keep moving the goal posts, always pushing for greater discrimination against low-tax jurisdictions to avoid being added to their […]
KYC 360 Posted on 03 August 2011 by Naomi Cohen
Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week introduced the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act. This is the third time the Act has come before the house; the […]
(Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 2, 2010) In a remarkable development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development asserted at the Global Tax Forum that it has the power to regulate and restrain tax avoidance and other forms of legal tax planning. The Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, which is now the […]
May 18, 2011
FRANCISCA MORDI:
“Good morning. My name is Francisca Mordi, and I am vice president and senior tax counsel at the American Bankers Association.”
https://sites.morimor.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2011/07/ABA.pdf
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