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5 Mar 2009, 9:20 pm
The Swiss have apparently agreed to freeze $150 million in a Swiss bank account, which may be tied to the Haliburton bribes, pursuant to Mutual Legal Assistance between the two countries, according a press report. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 11:01 am
Bradley Birkenfeld will receive the payment for details he provided the U.S. government about offshore banking activities of the Swiss bank, the IRS confirmed, after his lawyers in Washington on Tuesday announced the reward. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 12:57 pm
Nearly 80 Swiss institutions enrolled in the Swiss Bank Program and successfully resolved their potential exposure under U.S. tax laws by paying steep financial penalties and agreeing to fully cooperate with the U.S. government’s ongoing investigations of offshore tax evasion. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 8:41 am
The Swiss parliament finally approved the deal made between UBS and the U.S. government that requires UBS to turn over the names of 4,450 U.S. citizens who held accounts at the Swiss bank. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 4:44 am
In particular the success of the German savings banks and the Swiss cantonal banks allowed German and Swiss businesses to continue to access credit throughout the recession. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 7:53 pm
Birkenfeld's description of the real Swiss bank is not so different--or if anything seems more surreal, since the bank even taught its bankers how to fool FBI and customs inspectors in order to move client assets around without the authorities knowledge. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 10:21 pm
Final approval is also required by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. [read post]
4 May 2011, 11:32 pm
UBS, the Swiss banking giant, was accused by the federal and state governments of rigging bids in a municipal bond derivatives market, The New York Times reports. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 9:32 pm
In a settlement with the Swiss government detailed Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service said Swiss bank UBS AG will ultimately [...] [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 6:00 am
Swiss Banks Are Getting Ready to Throw Their U.S. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 2:38 pm
Nearly 80 Swiss institutions enrolled in the Swiss Bank Program and successfully resolved their potential exposure under U.S. tax laws by paying steep financial penalties and agreeing to fully cooperate with the U.S. government’s ongoing investigations of offshore tax evasion. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 3:22 am
Under that law, the government has already forced branches of Swiss banks to provide names of 3000 French taxpayers in Switzerland. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 11:14 am
[JURIST] The Swiss Federal Administrative Court [official website, in German] announced [press release] Monday that an agreement [text, PDF] with the US, allowing Swiss bank UBS [corporate website; JURIST news archive] to disclose account information of clients suspected by the US government of tax evasion, is binding. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 8:48 am
The Washington Post reports that the the criteria the United States and Swiss governments used to determine which American UBS customers names were disclosed to the IRS has been made public: If you had less than $248,200 (250,000 Swiss francs) in your secret account at Switzerland's largest bank, or if it generated less than $99,280 (100,000 Swiss francs) [...] [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 10:51 am
Too often people think Swiss bank account problems only impact the very wealthy. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 12:23 pm
That crackdown was sparked by revelations from an employee of Swiss bank UBS that the bank had actively helped U.S. clients avoid reporting income. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 12:09 pm
The former UBS banker’s disclosures of illegal offshore Swiss banking resulted in over $5 billion recovered for U.S. taxpayers. [read post]
18 May 2021, 9:00 am
U.S. authorities correspondingly began investigating a number of other Swiss banks as part of a large-scale effort by U.S. authorities to crack down on the practice of wealthy Americans using Swiss banks to evade paying taxes. [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 12:01 am
In the face of massive protests from women’s associations, the Swiss government organized a new vote on women’s suffrage, which saw women finally victorious. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 4:40 am
Interestingly, the Swiss government’s order would only apply to those taxpayers whose identities remain a secret. [read post]
