03/04/2015
UBS Whistle-Blower Says Bank Has ‘Global’ Issue With Tax Evaders
The former UBS Group AG banker whose cooperation with the U.S. helped expose tax evasion by thousands of Americans says the Swiss bank used similar practices elsewhere and he’s eager to help European governments.
03/03/2015
Monaco latest to ink accord with Italy to end bank secrecy
The principality of Monaco has signed an accord with Italy aimed at ending banking secrecy, days after Switzerland and Liechtenstein inked similar pledges to exchange financial information with Rome
03/03/2015
Switzerland and Australia have signed a joint declaration on introducing the reciprocal automatic exchange of information in tax matters
03/02/2015
MALTA: Ninu Zammit, Michael Falzon tax returns show tax evasion while in office
His position has since been “regularised” through a government tax amnesty.
03/02/2015
Public Accounts Committee seeks to question HSBC over tax
Secret files included details of Irish people who made tax settlements
03/02/2015
IRS still after former U.S. soccer bigwig over millions in unpaid taxes
The tax man is still chasing the big man at the center of the simmering scandal over corruption at the highest levels of international soccer.
03/02/2015
Italy and Switzerland have agreed an amendment to their double tax agreement (DTA) to enhance tax information exchange provisions
03/02/2015
The minister's comments come just days after McDonald's was accused by labour unions
02/27/2015
AOA was established in 2011 to regulate and supervise auditors in the Cayman Islands who audit the accounts of market-traded companies.
02/27/2015
Changes in Guernsey taxation to affect home owners and high net worth individuals - BDO
These changes are mainly in the area of personal taxation and are introduced by a number of Amendment Ordinances recently published, some of which are still to be laid before the Guernsey States of Deliberation.
02/26/2015
RBC Bahamas Unit Faulted in Probe of Tax Fraud, Money Laundering
Royal Bank of Canada, Canada’s second-largest lender, said French prosecutors are recommending a Bahamas wealth-management unit be punished in a probe of tax fraud and money laundering.
02/26/2015
Lin Homer, the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs, said it had reached a deal in the past few days with French authorities to pass on the data "to pursue wider offenses"
02/25/2015
That connection, however, doesn’t relate to the tax evasion per se, but rather to the disclosure of the names.
02/25/2015
A number of tax professionals have argued that a new code of conduct is unnecessary, but some experts have expressed support for a kitemark, or charter, for advisers.
02/25/2015
UK expats will need to carefully consider how the new rules will affect them, seeking advice, if necessary, on the treatment of the lump sum when remitted to the expat's new home state.
02/25/2015
Beginning in 2008, the IRS began a high profile campaign of pursuing taxpayers with unreported offshore accounts
02/25/2015
Jersey chief minister 'disappointed' at Miliband letter
Earlier this month Miliband said a future Labour government would push for UK overseas territories to be put on an international blacklist if they refuse to co-operate with a drive against tax avoidance.
02/25/2015
A country known for its clocks, chocolate and most importantly banks, the agreement by Switzerland’s government to share details of those super-secret bank accounts is one that will change the world at large
02/25/2015
The game changer in automatic exchange was the enactment of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in 2010
02/24/2015
Switzerland to sign tax deal with Germany in medium term: finance minister
Switzerland expects in the future to sign a deal with Germany to automatically exchange tax information