FVG Winner: CEPOS, Denmark
This is the third in a series of posts introducing this year’ s five Fisher Venture Grant Recipients, view posts about the other winners here. Atlas is pleased to acknowledge the Center for Political Studies in Denmark as a recipient of the 2009 Fisher Venture Grant Awards. Founded just four years ago, CEPOS has been [...]
Tax Day “Tea Parties” Held Across the United States Tomorrow
While many Americans spend April 15th scrambling to send in their federal and state tax returns, this year they can also participant in another nation-wide activity: a tea party! Attendees to these tea parties, however, will not be sipping cups of earl grey tea and munching on scones, they’ll be protesting. Known as the “Tax [...]
Ask the PM
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has launched a new method of dialogue with the public. Those with questions for Gordon Brown may post them to youtube; the most popular questions will be answered by the Prime Minister. The Taxpayers’ Alliance has posted a question regarding the ever-increasing public debt. They’ve reached 2300 views [...]
How Much do you Want to Pay?
In the Will Ferrell film Stranger than Fiction , Ferrell plays an IRS agent who audits a young woman who chose to only pay taxes for the government services she believed in. I found myself thinking, what a genius plan! I wish I could only pay for the services I believed it was legitimate for [...]
CROATIA’S 2008 TAX FREEDOM DAY
June 13, 2008, Zagreb Adriatic Institute announces CROATIA’S 2008 TAX FREEDOM DAY Croatia’s Tax Freedom Day – Dan Porezne Slobode calculated by The Adriatic Institute falls on June 13, 2008, a day later when compared to last year’s findings. On Friday, June 13, 2008, Croatia’s workers stopped working for the Minister of Finance and began [...]
