August 26th, 2009
Switzerland continues to enjoy an excellent image abroad based on stereotypes about the country, according to a study issued on Tuesday.
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August 25th, 2009
Off-shore hedge-fund investors could be the next target of the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. lawmakers after last week's landmark agreement between the U.S. and Swiss governments over secret Swiss bank accounts held by U.S. citizens.
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August 25th, 2009
Reuters has reported Swiss press coverage of UBS comments this weekend, It’s amazing stuff. A selection of the quotes are:
"The clients are not just harmless victims. They knew what they wanted to evade," Kaspar Villiger, chairman of the world’s second-largest wealth manager, said in an interview with SonntagsBlick.
"But they trusted the bank that it would work. Now we have to correct that," said Villiger, adding it was still not the responsibility of UBS to make sure clients paid their taxes.
Wrong guys. It is your job to detect money laundering through your...
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August 24th, 2009
According to
UBS's chairman, Kaspar Villiger, the bank's tax-evading American "clients are not just harmless victims. They knew what they wanted to evade."
It's nice to see that the UBS chief is on the same page as the rest of the world on this point. However, according to
Reuters, he also does not believe that "systematic tax evasion had been a problem in countries other than the United States." I find it very difficult to believe that he believes this.
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