GenevaLunch » taxes http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:24 +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 OECD tells Bern to discourage consumer debt, warns of real estate bubble http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/oecd-tells-bern-to-discourage-consumer-debt-warns-of-real-estate-bubble/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/oecd-tells-bern-to-discourage-consumer-debt-warns-of-real-estate-bubble/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:29:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65539 GenevaLunch.com Possible overheating in real estate: tighten mortgage requirements, gov’t told BERN, SWITZERLAND – The OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) 2012 report on Switzerland, issued this week, cautions Bern against allowing consumer debt to build and warns that the real estate market may be overheating., The report’s overall assessment is that while Switzerland is [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/oecd-tells-bern-to-discourage-consumer-debt-warns-of-real-estate-bubble/feed/ 0 Romney’s former Swiss bank account viewed as part of larger picture of wealth http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/24/romneys-former-swiss-bank-account-viewed-as-part-of-larger-picture-of-wealth/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/24/romneys-former-swiss-bank-account-viewed-as-part-of-larger-picture-of-wealth/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:11:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65492 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whose estimated net worth is $190-250 million, has made  public more than 500 pages of tax records after losing the South Carolina primary over the weekend to Newt Gingrich, who accused the former financial investment manager of not coming clean about his wealth. It is the first-ever [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/24/romneys-former-swiss-bank-account-viewed-as-part-of-larger-picture-of-wealth/feed/ 0 FBAR assumptions add to media muddle over Hildebrand story http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/23/fbar-assumptions-add-to-media-muddle-over-hildebrand-story/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/23/fbar-assumptions-add-to-media-muddle-over-hildebrand-story/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:19:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65472 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two new wrinkles appeared Monday 23 January in Swiss media stories surrounding the resignation of Swiss National Bank Chairman Philipp Hildebrand. French-speaking Switzerland’s largest circulation newspaper Le Matin Dimanche yesterday picked up on vague suggestions that have been appearing in German-language media since early January that his wife Kashya, who is American, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/23/fbar-assumptions-add-to-media-muddle-over-hildebrand-story/feed/ 1 Financial consultants: Blackden Financial http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/12/blackden-financial-2/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/12/blackden-financial-2/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:54:37 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://b-spirit.ch/?p=3481 GenevaLunch.com Blackden is a boutique of Swiss-based financial advisers whose work includes expat mortgages and primary & secondary residences, pensions and taxation. Based in Versoix.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/12/blackden-financial-2/feed/ 0 US vs Swiss banks: unconfirmed rumours that banks will have to cough up data http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/18/us-vs-swiss-banks-unconfirmed-rumours-that-banks-will-have-to-cough-up-data/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/18/us-vs-swiss-banks-unconfirmed-rumours-that-banks-will-have-to-cough-up-data/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:49:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64782 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The SonntagsZeitung, a Sunday newspaper that has often revealed political secrets, with a mixed track record for getting them right, reports today that 11 Swiss banks are being offered agreements by the US government similar to the one reached in 2009 with UBS, the country’s largest bank. The agreement reportedly would have [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/18/us-vs-swiss-banks-unconfirmed-rumours-that-banks-will-have-to-cough-up-data/feed/ 5 New tax on 5kg+ batteries applies in January http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-tax-on-5kg-batteries-applies-in-january/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-tax-on-5kg-batteries-applies-in-january/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:20:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64542 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Batteries over 5kg will be taxed at purchase, rather than when they are recycled, starting 1 January 2012, says Bern. Household and small batteries currently carry a recycling tax, at purchase, but not larger ones, such as car batteries and industrial ones. The new system is designed to boost the rate of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-tax-on-5kg-batteries-applies-in-january/feed/ 0 Swiss went to the polls Sunday and decided . . . http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/swiss-went-to-the-polls-sunday-and-decided/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/swiss-went-to-the-polls-sunday-and-decided/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:34:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64114 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss voters were back at the ballot box Sunday 27 November, a month after parliamentary elections, to vote on a number of items that differed from one canton to the next. Here are some of the highlights, as results flow in Sunday evening: Swiss right loses most runoffs, Geneva rebuffs minimum wage [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/swiss-went-to-the-polls-sunday-and-decided/feed/ 1 Swiss gov’t puts legal onus on US-based bank acct. owners (update 2) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/16/swiss-govt-puts-legal-onus-on-us-based-bank-acct-owners-update-2/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/16/swiss-govt-puts-legal-onus-on-us-based-bank-acct-owners-update-2/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:42:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63623 GenevaLunch.com Account holders domiciled abroad must ensure someone is designated as a contact in case of litigation BERN, SWITZERLAND – US citizens with Swiss bank accounts who are domiciled in the US and who have not clearly designated, in the bank’s files, a representative who can be contacted on their behalf ad litern (in case of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/16/swiss-govt-puts-legal-onus-on-us-based-bank-acct-owners-update-2/feed/ 0 Swiss spend more on food than on taxes http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:08:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63575 GenevaLunch.com Insurance was 8.4% in 2009, but cost has risen for past 2 years BERN, SWITZERLAND – Average disposable household income in Switzerland in 2009 was CHF6,650 a month, with 13 percent of that, CHF1,185, going for food, beverages and restaurants. Housing and energy together made up the largest household budget item, CHF1,495 a month. Transport [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/feed/ 0 Swiss condemn Israel for measures against Palestine http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/swiss-condemn-israel-for-measures-against-palestine/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/swiss-condemn-israel-for-measures-against-palestine/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:06:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63131 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government said Wednesday night 2 November that it condemns Israel for two new measures, voted by the Israeli cabinet Tuesday, shortly after Unesco admitted Palestine as a member. Bern stopped short of calling the measures retaliatory, but it notes that the decision by Tel Aviv to “speed up construction of [...]

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