Monday’s Top Stories
March 1st, 2010
Govt loses 30% revenue to evasion
The Zimbabwean, February 26, 2010
Germany buys Swiss bank data in tax evasion crackdown
Reuters, February 26, 2010
Swiss to outlaw untaxed money but wants to cling on to bank secrecy
Investment International, March 1, 2010
U.S.-UBS Deal Is Undermined by Swiss Ruling
Bloomberg News, February 26, 2010
Korean Depositors in Switzerland Face Monitoring
Korea Times, March 1, 2010
Silvio Berlusconi ‘avoiding justice’, demonstrators say
BBC World News, February 27, 2010
Berlusconi corruption trial adjourned to March 26
Reuters, February 27, 2010
Over 2,000 Italians probed in new tax crackdown
Reuters, February 26, 2010
OECD to list tax offences as form of money laundering
AFP, March 1, 2010
Russia Busts Crime Ring That Laundered $1.6 Billion
Bloomberg News, March 1, 2010
‘Documents prove Olmert’s guilt’
Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2010
India targets ‘black’ money
The National (UAE), February 27, 2010
Costa Rica looks to take itself off tax haven list
Tico Times (Costa Rica), March 1, 2010
Hedge-Fund Assets Offshore Exempt From Reporting Rule
Bloomberg News, February 26, 2010
Tax havens robbing 255 bn euros of poorest nations
PTI News, February 28, 2010
Wealthy Pakistanis Should Pay More Tax, Clinton Says
Tax Analysts, March 1, 2010