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Financing Without Favor: Ending the Debt Bias and Making Corporate Funding Neutral

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most corporate tax systems subsidize borrowing and penalize equity. Interest is usually deductible; the normal return to equity is not. That debt bias nudges firms toward higher leverage, raises financial fragility, and distorts investment choices. The International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) 2025 highlights two families of fixes: (1) Allowance for Corporate Equity (ACE)—a deduction for...

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The Case Against Financial Transaction Taxes: How Tiny Rates Create Big Frictions

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Financial Transaction Taxes (FTTs) sound simple: add a tiny levy to each trade and raise easy revenue. In reality, they act like sand in the gears of capital markets. Even at a few basis points, FTTs widen spreads, thin liquidity, and slow the reallocation of capital to its best uses. The costs land on everyone...

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Taxing Work (and Saving) Well: Building a Competitive Individual Tax System

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How a country taxes work and saving shapes labor supply, entrepreneurship, and long-term investment. Competitive systems pair moderate top rates with sensible thresholds, keep the marginal tax wedge in check, avoid add-on surtaxes, and minimize the second layer of tax on dividends and capital gains. This guide sets out a practical reform blueprint—especially relevant...

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Territorial vs. Worldwide: Designing Cross-Border Rules that Attract Investment in a Pillar Two World

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Cross-border tax rules can either welcome global capital or push it away. The strongest regimes are simple and predictable: territorial systems that exempt foreign dividends and capital gains, streamlined withholding taxes supported by robust treaties, and anti-avoidance rules that protect the base without choking ordinary finance. Even with the rise of the global minimum...

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Property Taxes with Purpose: Designing Less-Distortive Capital and Real-Estate Levies

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Well-designed property and wealth taxes can raise stable revenue with fewer side effects. Poorly designed ones act as direct taxes on capital—discouraging new construction, renovations, and business expansion, while spawning compliance costs that do little to grow the real economy. The International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) 2025 is explicit: jurisdictions that tax land only...

Broad Base, Lower Rate: The VAT Design That Supports Competitiveness

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Well-designed consumption taxes are workhorses of modern fiscal systems: they raise substantial revenue with relatively low distortion—but only if they’re broad-based, neutral, and avoid taxing business inputs. The 2025 International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) splits consumption taxes into rate and base subcategories for a reason: a system that applies a moderate rate to a very...

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From Incentives to Simplicity: Trimming Corporate Tax Complexity Without Losing Competitiveness

October 21, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Corporate tax complexity is a stealth tax on investment. Multiple rates and surtaxes, a maze of special incentives, and “other” profit-type levies inflate compliance costs, cloud after-tax returns, and push capital toward lobbying rather than productive activity. The International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) 2025 explicitly measures these frictions: countries with multiple corporate brackets, surtaxes, turnover-style...

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Corporate Taxes and Growth: Getting Rates, Bases, and Cost Recovery Right

October 21, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Corporate income tax (CIT) design does far more than raise revenue. It shapes the cost of capital, influences where businesses build and expand, and ultimately affects productivity, wages, and prices. In the International Tax Competitiveness Index 2025 (ITCI), the corporate tax category is decomposed into three levers—rate, cost recovery, and incentives & complexity—because these are...

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Competitiveness vs. Neutrality: The Two Pillars of Modern Tax Design

October 21, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tax systems do more than collect revenue; they shape where capital flows, how firms invest, and how households work, save, and spend. The International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) 2025 provides a rigorous framework for assessing how well a country’s tax code advances two foundational goals: competitiveness and neutrality. Competitiveness keeps marginal tax burdens low to...

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Dawgen Decodes: Renewal to Growth — Turning Stabilization into Competitive Advantage in 12 Months

October 19, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Restructuring doesn’t end when the org chart changes or the headcount action is complete. In fact, the riskiest period starts after structural work: value can backslide, behaviors can regress, and the organization can quietly rebuild the very complexity it just removed. The antidote is Renewal—the fourth phase of DG-4T™ inside Dawgen Global’s DG-STRATEX™ operating system....

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