11/11/2014
The recent reports in the media on tax advice in Luxembourg co-ordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) are based on partial, incomplete information dating back four years or more, which was illegally obtained.
11/11/2014
The divorce that shocked Wall Street– between a former Ralph Lauren event planner and her coke- and Ecstasy-loving, sex-crazed banker hubby– quickly settled late Monday before the couple was due to make a public appearance in court on Wednesda
11/10/2014
The firm has appointed established funds and real-estate tax lawyer Cathryn Vanderspar as the new head of its London tax team. Vanderspar joins the firm from Berwin Leighton Paisner, where she has been a tax partner for more than 16 years.
11/10/2014
It said the interest rate derivatives activities, including on Euribor, of Swiss and other foreign banks were also under investigation.
11/07/2014
“Large Swiss banks are managing accounts belonging to thousands of Israelis holding millions of euros,” the authority said in an emailed statement Wednesday. “The suspicion is that most of the money in the accounts hasn’t been repo
11/07/2014
The United Kingdom has signed intergovernmental agreements (‘IGAs’) with its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories in order to improve compliance with UK tax laws, a regime often referred to as ‘UK FATCA’.
11/06/2014
Israel arrested 14 people, including a senior UBS investment adviser, as part of an investigation into Israelis allegedly holding undisclosed bank accounts with UBS worth hundreds of millions of euros
11/05/2014
Many of Switzerland's private bankers breathed a sigh of relief at the acquittal of Raoul Weil, the former head of wealth management at UBS, on charges of helping wealthy Americans dodge taxes.
11/05/2014
Switzerland's tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) with Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man have entered into force and will be effective from January 1, 2015.
11/05/2014
Over the past few years, the Indian government has been dispatching a number of requests to the Swiss authorities arising from either search operations done by the Income Tax department or information received on holdings of Indians in Switzerland from th
11/05/2014
A federal jury in South Florida on Monday took a little over one hour to acquit Raoul Weil, who headed the Swiss bank's global wealth management unit, of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.