GenevaLunch » tax authorities http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Credit Suisse employee reportedly jailed over German data sale http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/21/credit-suisse-employee-reportedly-jailed-over-german-data-sale/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/21/credit-suisse-employee-reportedly-jailed-over-german-data-sale/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:37:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52742 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – An employee of Credit Suisse was jailed some time ago for suspicion of selling stolen data from his bank to German tax authorities, Tages Anzeiger reports. According to TSR, which has picked up the story, a straw man, or intermediary, initially suspected and arrested in 2010, hung himself in his prison [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/21/credit-suisse-employee-reportedly-jailed-over-german-data-sale/feed/ 0 Italian tax police raid 76 Swiss banks in Italy http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/italian-tax-police-raid-76-swiss-banks-in-italy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/italian-tax-police-raid-76-swiss-banks-in-italy/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:10:48 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30579 GenevaLunch.com Lugano, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Italian tax authorities raided 76 branches of Swiss banks in 22 cities around Italy, 27 October, ostensibly checking to see whether the institutions were in compliance with reporting requirements on bank operations. Federal Counsellor Pascal Couchepin said on national radio that they “were desperate measures” and suggested that the social contract [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/28/italian-tax-police-raid-76-swiss-banks-in-italy/feed/ 0 Swiss bankers propose a universal withholding tax system http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/18/swiss-bankers-propose-a-universal-withholding-tax-system/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/18/swiss-bankers-propose-a-universal-withholding-tax-system/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:26:18 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=28016 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – EU citizens with bank accounts in Switzerland will pay a withholding tax on income from all investments, not just on savings income as at present, if a proposal from the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) goes ahead. The group, at its annual meeting in Zurich 17 September suggested that the money collected [...]

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