GenevaLunch » tax treaty http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Switzerland, Italy ready to talk a tax deal at top levelhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/switzerland-italy-ready-to-talk-a-tax-deal-at-top-level/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/switzerland-italy-ready-to-talk-a-tax-deal-at-top-level/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 12:28:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70073 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Germany, the UK and now Italy: Switzerland’s southern neighbour is the latest to enter into talks with Bern over ways to get more of its citizens money into the taxman’s hands. A steering group has been set up and will meet for the first time 24 May to consider several financial and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/switzerland-italy-ready-to-talk-a-tax-deal-at-top-level/feed/ 0 Swiss president says talks with US still moving, but partner “not easy”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/swiss-president-says-talks-with-us-still-moving-but-partner-not-easy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/swiss-president-says-talks-with-us-still-moving-but-partner-not-easy/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:01:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65201 GenevaLunch.com President, head of bankers’ association, say road ahead rough for bank competivity GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss financial industry is facing tough times which are not likely to soon be easier, two financial leaders said at separate press conferences Thursday. Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Sclumpf, who is also the country’s finance minister, met with journalists 12 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/swiss-president-says-talks-with-us-still-moving-but-partner-not-easy/feed/ 0 Ambassadors say US, Swiss tax agreement talks moving ahead (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/28/ambassadors-say-us-swiss-tax-agreement-talks-moving-ahead-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/28/ambassadors-say-us-swiss-tax-agreement-talks-moving-ahead-update/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:37:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64861 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss ambassador to the US and American one to Switzerland have both said in recent days that they hope and expect an agreement to be reached in the near future as the result of discussions between the two governments over US investigations into 11 Swiss banks. The banks are under suspicion [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/28/ambassadors-say-us-swiss-tax-agreement-talks-moving-ahead-update/feed/ 0 To withhold or not to withhold, that is not the questionhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/21/to-withhold-or-not-to-withhold-that-is-not-the-question/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/21/to-withhold-or-not-to-withhold-that-is-not-the-question/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:24:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=48881 GenevaLunch.com Germany and Switzerland agree they haven’t agreed on withholding tax details Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Will Swiss banks withhold tax for German authorities or won’t they? Ping-pong answers from both governments in the past week over tax talks appear to show now that a withholding tax on German assets hidden in Switzerland is likely, and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/21/to-withhold-or-not-to-withhold-that-is-not-the-question/feed/ 0 New Swiss finance sect’y says US tax treaty must be kepthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/19/new-swiss-finance-secty-says-us-tax-treaty-must-be-kept/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/19/new-swiss-finance-secty-says-us-tax-treaty-must-be-kept/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 07:12:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=42052 GenevaLunch.com Michael Ambuehl meets US press at end of two-day visit UBS agreement and new tax treaty were on the agenda Washington, DC, USA (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s new Head of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters in the Federal Department of Finance Michael Ambuehl Tuesday concluded two days of meetings with a number of high-level [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/19/new-swiss-finance-secty-says-us-tax-treaty-must-be-kept/feed/ 0 Switzerland, US sign revision to UBS client agreement (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/httpgenevalunch-comblog20100127swiss-govt-will-ask-parliament-to-make-us-tax-agreement-into-treaty/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/httpgenevalunch-comblog20100127swiss-govt-will-ask-parliament-to-make-us-tax-agreement-into-treaty/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:35:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39460 GenevaLunch.com Swiss government able to continue checking 4,200 UBS client accounts requested by IRS New protocol buys gov’t time before Parliament’s vote on new tax treaty Update 21:15  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland and the US Wednesday 31 March both signed an “amending protocol” to their 19 August  2009 agreement whereby the Swiss promised to issue [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/httpgenevalunch-comblog20100127swiss-govt-will-ask-parliament-to-make-us-tax-agreement-into-treaty/feed/ 2 Bern clarifies: no guarantee IRS will have 4,450 UBS names in endhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/18/bern-clarifies-no-guarantee-irs-will-have-4450-ubs-names-in-end/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/18/bern-clarifies-no-guarantee-irs-will-have-4450-ubs-names-in-end/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:07:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31816 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “There is no guarantee that the IRS will have 4,450 names” when Switzerland finishes reviewing the 4,450 UBS bank accounts identified according to the criteria established by the United States and Switzerland, Folco Galli of the Swiss Federal Justice Department told GenevaLunch Wednesday 18 November. There is also no reason to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/18/bern-clarifies-no-guarantee-irs-will-have-4450-ubs-names-in-end/feed/ 2 German-Swiss tax treaty to be revisedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/german-swiss-tax-treaty-to-be-revised/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/german-swiss-tax-treaty-to-be-revised/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:33:31 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=20837 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland is ready to revise its double tax treaty with Germany, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz told Peer Steinbrueck, the German finance minister, when the two met in Berlin Monday 22 June. Merz says the Swiss government wants to quickly implement its 13 March decision to bring Swiss tax law into line [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/german-swiss-tax-treaty-to-be-revised/feed/ 0 US, Switzerland “initial” revised double taxation agreementhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/19/us-switzerland-initial-revised-double-taxation-agreement/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/19/us-switzerland-initial-revised-double-taxation-agreement/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:52:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20638 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland and the United States “initialed” a revised double taxation agreement (DTA) in Washington, DC 18 June. According to the US government, “Official signing of the protocol is expected in the next few months.” A new agreement was necessary following the Swiss government’s decision 13 March to adopt the OECD’s (Organisation [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/19/us-switzerland-initial-revised-double-taxation-agreement/feed/ 3 French-Swiss tax agreement pleases Frenchhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/15/french-swiss-tax-agreement-pleases-french/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/15/french-swiss-tax-agreement-pleases-french/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:20:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20179 GenevaLunch.com Paris, France (Le Temps, Fre) – Switzerland and France Friday signed a new tax treaty that could go into effect as early as January 2010, which for the first time promises the French more help in catching tax evaders. French Budget Minister Eric Woerth called it a “spectacular” success, saying that the Swiss had helped [...]

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