Financial Transparency Coalition

The IRS has now posted the final documents from its settlement with UBS on its website. For those interested, they can be found below:

• U.S.-Swiss Government Agreement
• Declarations
• Bank Agreement
• Offshore Tax Avoidance and IRS Compliance Efforts

The full statement from the IRS is pasted below:

UBS AG will hand over some 4,450 names of U.S. account holders as part of a U.S.-Swiss tax-evasion settlement and investigation that could produce in total 10,000 account identities, according to people familiar with the situation.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Details of a landmark settlement of the U.S. tax case against Swiss bank UBS are expected this week, which should help the bank restore its image and open the way for the Swiss state to sell its UBS stake.

Federal prosecutors are building criminal cases against 150 wealthy American clients of the Swiss banking giant UBS as part of a continuing investigation into tax evasion, a person briefed on the matter said Thursday.