GenevaLunch » taxes 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 Trafigura to move trading headquarters to Singaporehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/trafigura-to-move-trading-headquarters-to-singapore/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/trafigura-to-move-trading-headquarters-to-singapore/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 14:11:44 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=70444 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Trafigura, the world’s third largest commodities trading company, announced it will be moving its legal headquarters from Geneva to Singapore, lured by lower taxes and proximity to China. Trafigura Pte, a Singaporean incorporated entity will become the company’s headquarters for its trading division later this year, with its chief financial officer, Pierre [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/trafigura-to-move-trading-headquarters-to-singapore/feed/ 0 Black market labour battle showing results, says Bernhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/black-market-labour-battle-showing-results-says-bern/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/black-market-labour-battle-showing-results-says-bern/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 13:06:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70166 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss federal government says the fight against black market labour is showing results, thanks to strong support from the cantons. Inspectors carried out 1,130 checks of companies and checked 33,866 individuals in 2011, a slight drop, according to Bern’s figures, but the government says cantons carried out more in-depth investigations last [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/11/black-market-labour-battle-showing-results-says-bern/feed/ 0 Swiss president, US attorney general discuss tax issues at IMF meetinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/22/swiss-president-us-attorney-general-discuss-tax-issues-at-imf-meeting/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/22/swiss-president-us-attorney-general-discuss-tax-issues-at-imf-meeting/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:50:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69300 GenevaLunch.com Switzerland to share seat with Poland, pledges additional $10 billion to IMF BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss President Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf and US Attorney General Eric Holder met on the fringes of a key International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington 20-21 April. Bern’s statement was brief, noting that the two met “in order to discuss bilateral [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/22/swiss-president-us-attorney-general-discuss-tax-issues-at-imf-meeting/feed/ 0 Swiss group accuses Glencore of buying child labour copperhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/swiss-group-accuses-glencore-of-buying-child-labour-copper/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/swiss-group-accuses-glencore-of-buying-child-labour-copper/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:50:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69056 GenevaLunch.com Story filmed by RTS and BBC airs in UK on “Panorama” tonight Switzerland’s largest company in lengthy rebuttal says not so ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Glencore, Switzerland’s largest company in terms of turnover and reportedly the supplier of 50 percent of the world’s copper, is accused of indirectly buying material from an “artisanal mine” in the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/16/swiss-group-accuses-glencore-of-buying-child-labour-copper/feed/ 1 Germany, Switzerland sign “supplemented” tax agreement (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/05/germany-switzerland-sign-supplemented-tax-agreement-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/05/germany-switzerland-sign-supplemented-tax-agreement-update/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:35:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68683 GenevaLunch.com Media charges of tense relations over tax issues denied by both governments German political world, media reactions mixed BERN, SWITZERLAND – German and Switzerland signed a “Supplemental Protocol” to their September 2011 tax agreement, Thursday 5 April. Bern issued a statement noting that “The essence of the agreement remains unchanged, that the taxation of German [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/05/germany-switzerland-sign-supplemented-tax-agreement-update/feed/ 0 650 Credit Suisse clients, CHF5.4 million: budget leaks the cost of US taxman demandshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/650-credit-suisse-clients-chf5-4-million-budget-leaks-the-cost-of-us-taxman-demands/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/650-credit-suisse-clients-chf5-4-million-budget-leaks-the-cost-of-us-taxman-demands/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:00:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68367 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Journalists have been hounding the Swiss government for months about the number of US clients of Credit Suisse targeted by the US Justice department and Wednesday evening the information came out, but through a back door: it was tucked into a budget note from the Federal Council. The number of clients whose [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/650-credit-suisse-clients-chf5-4-million-budget-leaks-the-cost-of-us-taxman-demands/feed/ 0 Swiss abroad, caught in US-Swiss tax crossfirehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/26/swiss-abroad-caught-in-us-swiss-tax-crossfire/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/26/swiss-abroad-caught-in-us-swiss-tax-crossfire/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:33:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68253 GenevaLunch.com Credit Suisse reported to be asking Americans for tax advisors’ names, proof of filing in the US BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSE) is demanding that the government and Swiss banks find a reasonable solution to the growing banking problems of Swiss citizens who live outside the country, particularly those in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/26/swiss-abroad-caught-in-us-swiss-tax-crossfire/feed/ 0 Border worker numbers up sharply; gov’t cracks down on social security, wages abusehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/05/border-worker-numbers-up-sharply-govt-cracks-down-on-social-security-wages-abuse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/05/border-worker-numbers-up-sharply-govt-cracks-down-on-social-security-wages-abuse/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:32:36 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67311 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of cross-border (frontalier) workers in Switzerland rose by 11.5 percent from the last quarter of 2010 to the same period in 2011, the federal government announced Monday 5 March. Numbers rose 4 percent in one quarter alone. (full report, Fr) The Lake Geneva region has more than 87,000 workers living [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/05/border-worker-numbers-up-sharply-govt-cracks-down-on-social-security-wages-abuse/feed/ 0 UN employees targeted in cigarette customs swindlehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/01/un-employees-targeted-in-cigarette-customs-swindle/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/01/un-employees-targeted-in-cigarette-customs-swindle/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:52:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67153 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss Customs, working closely with French colleagues under the Swiss-EU anti-fraud agreement, have uncovered a ring of cigarette smugglers who imported some 50,000 cartons of cigarettes into France. The business is valued at CHF2 billion in lost tax monies. A number of people have been taken in for questioning in relation to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/01/un-employees-targeted-in-cigarette-customs-swindle/feed/ 0 US-Swiss tax treaty passes large parliamentary hurdlehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/29/us-swiss-tax-treaty-passes-large-parliamentary-hurdle/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/29/us-swiss-tax-treaty-passes-large-parliamentary-hurdle/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:12:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67099 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The lower house of the Swiss parliament Wednesday gave its blessing to a new US-Swiss tax treaty that calls for Switzerland to provide blocks of data to the US on clients suspected of not just fiscal fraud, but of tax evasion. In a 116-51 vote a large majority backed the treaty, but [...]

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