Paris-Based Bureaucracy Threatens U.S. Pro-Growth Tax Reforms($85Mil annually from USA)

Human Events Online ^ | Oct 06, 2006 | Mike Franc

[kellynla]

Few Americans know much about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based bureaucracy best known for its dry studies, reams of economic statistics, and world-class wine cellar. But they should know more. After all, it receives about $400 million annually from 30 western democracies, including $85 million from American taxpayers, which covers much of its annual budget.

What few know is that the OECD poses one of the greatest threats to the enactment of pro-growth tax reforms in the United States and across the world. Remarkably, the U.S. contribution has underwritten mountains of studies full of Orwellian language that accord the highest moral standing to those countries that impose the highest tax burdens on its citizens and demonize those that don’t. It focuses on so-called “problems” such as “the role of tax intermediaries (e.g., law and accounting firms, other tax advisors and financial institutions) in relation to … the promotion of unacceptable tax minimization arrangements.”

[theBuckwheat]

Anyone who is interested in the role of the OECD in this issue can look at the Center for Freedom and Prosperity's site at:

http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/Articles/articles.shtml

The OECD's definition of having a "level playing field" with respect to taxes is that all developed countries should have high, European-like, taxes. Futher, they agitate for information sharing so a person who is tax exempt in one jurisdiction will be punished for moving his investments there. They are supporters and defenders of big and Bigger governments.

[kitkat]

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[Obie Wan]

Let me guess, this is a Foreign Relations Committee offspring right. Any way big or small these government bureaucrats can sell the USA out they'll gladly implement !!!