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17 Mar 2022, 9:04 am
Government’s Swiss Bank Program. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 4:33 pm
At the Swiss government's request, however, the data was encrypted and will remain so until certain of their own demands are met. [read post]
15 Mar 2016, 8:29 am
On August 19, 2013 the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Swiss Federal Government announced the creation of the Swiss Bank Program. [read post]
16 Aug 2018, 2:38 pm
The Swiss government underestimated the brewing storm on the other side of the Atlantic. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 1:31 pm
IN the meantime, Eric Woerth, the French minister of budget, made a startling announcement yesterday that the French government has acquired a list of 3000 names of French taxpayers who hold about $4.3 billion in Swiss banks. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 3:25 pm
Today, the United States and the Swiss government issued a joint statement on the issue. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 10:24 pm
WebCPA reports that Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the agreement between Switzerland and the US requiring UBS to disclose the names of more than 4,000 American taxpayer investors violates Swiss bank secrecy laws: The ruling last Friday on 26 sets of bank accounts threatens a deal that the Swiss and U.S. governments hammered out last August after [...] [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 3:53 pm
Swiss banking: BNA reports that the Swiss president expects parliament to approve the August 2009 US-Swiss agreement on UBS accounts, which is necessary to prevent the US from reopening the John Doe proceedings against the bank and seek details on all 45,000 accounts under threat of taking away the license permitting UBS to operate in the United States. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 7:21 am
“'Obviously, no one would use a Swiss bank account primarily in order to avoid U.S. tax on one’s interest income, at so low a rate of return,' Shaviro told me. 'You might have a case where the tax guys in his operation weren’t consulted on the Swiss bank account, since it wasn’t done for tax reasons, and didn’t learn about or at least prioritize it.'“'[H]e was earning relatively trivial interest from the… [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 1:13 am
The Swiss Bankers Association is mounting a campaign to persuade the Swiss Government not to enter into further agreements with the US requiring banks to reveal more US taxpayers' hidden Swiss bank accounts. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 6:28 pm
Government is seeking to compel the Swiss bank UBS to turn over information on 52,000 American depositors, whose accounts hold approximately $14.8 billion U.S. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 3:32 am
On January 8, 2010, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court (“Bundesverwaltungsgericht”) published a decision that declared the transfer of banking data to U.S. law enforcement authorities by the Swiss bank UBS to be illegal. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 2:52 pm
Either the Swiss must change their law to enable the bank to honor the settlement, or the US will have to go after UBS--and all the other Swiss banks--under US law, leading to a lot of ugly litigation that neither party wants, involving everything from the banks' failure to abide by their qualified intermediary agreements to customs violations when bank agents smuggled diamonds in toothpaste tubes.Given the predictable ugliness of… [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 7:17 am
It appears that German authorities targeted bank customers whose names the German government bought from an informant at one of the banks in 2010. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 5:14 pm
The United States government created the Swiss Bank program in order to encourage Swiss financial institutions to come forward with information about accountholders. [read post]
8 Nov 2009, 7:17 pm
Over the years, the Swiss have always thrived on providing banking solutions to overseas clients whose governments are over-spending. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 10:52 am
Taxes 06.02.2010 http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5220904,00.htmlGermany steps up hunt for tax evaders Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Germany is to pay 2.5 million euros for the Swiss bank dataGerman tax investigators are reportedly in France for negotiations with an informant to buy stolen Swiss bank data on 1,500 alleged tax evaders. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 5:29 am
The Swiss government said it was prepared to seize U.B.S. client data rather than allow the bank to hand it over to the United States to settle a tax case. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 4:15 pm
Finally, UBS agreed to disclose the details of the suspected bank depositors to the Swiss government through a review panel. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 3:00 pm
There is a reason that the Swiss finance minister has made clear that Swiss banking secrecy is alive and kicking and intends to be so well after this crisis passes. [read post]
