Is fiscal harmonization a moot issue?

Is fiscal harmonization a moot issue?

As countries’ tax systems differ, depending on the transaction costs, residents of high tax countries might be prone to shift their assets towards countries with lower taxation, resulting in capital outflows from the high tax country. Naturally, such occurrence might...

EU and free market principles? Just a joke!

Michel Barnier, European Commissioner responsible for internal market and services, has rejected all principles based on free market and free to choose and showed he is a communist, or he is just joking with us. Or both. There is no other explanation for his proposal...

Is fiscal harmonization a moot issue?

Possible answers to these questions were delivered by professor Enrico Colombatto in his paper “Fiscal harmonization: credible goal or Trojan horse?“ during the Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting 2012 in Prague. In order to analyze these issues,...

EU and free market principles? Just a joke!

This idea is not brand new; in 2011 (reference P/11/897) the European Commission declared it would be desirable to secure easy access to banking services in every EU country. The fact which let me calm then was that this communication had a form of...

Cena Margaret Thatcherové

Dnešním dnem začíná literárně-publicistická soutěž Cena Margaret Thatcherové, kterou pořádá občanské sdružení Reformy.cz ve spolupráci s Laissez Faire – časopisem pro svobodu jednotlivce. Mediálními partnery projektu jsou Revue Politika a portál Ostrava Online.Věříme,...