02/14/2013
Switzerland, U.S. sign pact on fighting offshore tax evasion
The law requires foreign financial institutions to tell the U.S. Internal Revenue Service about Americans' offshore accounts worth more than $50,000.
02/14/2013
"Opinions at the commission vary a great deal on the costs that it would impose
02/13/2013
From the start of this year, the Spanish authorities will be expecting these expats to reveal all.
02/13/2013
The SBA welcomes the signing of an agreement between Switzerland and the US for the facilitated implementation of FATCA.
02/12/2013
The AIF handbook also incorporates many of the changes requested by industry during the initial consultation process.
02/12/2013
Global solutions are needed to ensure that tax systems do not unduly favour multinational enterprises, leaving citizens and small businesses with bigger tax bills.
02/11/2013
These failures led to UBS customers being exposed to an unacceptable risk of an unsuitable sale of the Fund. UBS also failed to deal properly with complaints from customers about sales of the Fund.
02/10/2013
The new chief executive of Barclays is to close the bank's controversial tax avoidance unit
02/10/2013
Tom Hayes, the trader at the centre of the Libor-rigging scandal, has warned that the conspiracy to manipulate key global borrowing rates could implicate senior bank executives.
02/10/2013
In some cases, the middlemen took bribes as payment for the services in the form of so-called wash trades, regulators said, without identifying the firms that did.
02/10/2013
White & Case is acting for Handelsbanken
02/10/2013
HMRC argued Douglass had evaded tax estimated at £730,000
02/09/2013
The Willow Fund was a hedge fund which offered and sold more than $225 million in private placement interests
02/07/2013
UBS wins end to 'travesty' of lawsuit over tax evasion
Thursday's decision arose from a July 2011 lawsuit by three customers who had held Swiss bank accounts at UBS, and joined an Internal Revenue Service amnesty program that required them to pay back taxes on balances plus 20 percent penalties.
02/07/2013
The parties have agreed to abandon all proceedings and discontinue all measures
02/07/2013
The information filed against Tausche alleges a similar scheme against Barclays Bank
02/07/2013
There is widespread agreement among experts that the wealthy will face heavier taxes
02/06/2013
UBS owes Brazil $1.2 bln taxes for 2006-09
UBS sold the unit to Brazilian financier André Esteves and his partners for $2.5 billion in 2009 - the transaction led to the formation of BTG Pactual.
02/06/2013
The probe made scathing criticism of HSBC's anti-money-laundering systems and found its lax controls allowed two drug cartels to move $881 million through the bank.
02/06/2013
The team of Dovin Malkin & Ficken and Vernon Healy recently won a $4.3 million arbitration award against GenSpring Family Offices, a money management firm owned by SunTrust Bank, which offers investment advice and money management services to high and