GenevaLunch » US citizens 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 PostFinance’s restrictions will extend beyond Americans in Junehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/postfinances-restrictions-will-extend-beyond-americans-in-june/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/postfinances-restrictions-will-extend-beyond-americans-in-june/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:16:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69121 GenevaLunch.com Americans must already sign papers they are tax-compliant BERN, SWITZERLAND – The new head of the financial arm of SwissFinance, Hansruedi Koeng, told Le Temps newspaper (registration required) in an article published 17 April that the bank will start requiring all non-Swiss account holders to sign a paper stating that the funds in their accounts [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/postfinances-restrictions-will-extend-beyond-americans-in-june/feed/ 0 EC hails proposed deal to catch tax evaders between US and 5 EU gov’tshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/ec-hails-proposed-deal-to-catch-tax-evaders-between-us-and-5-eu-govts/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/ec-hails-proposed-deal-to-catch-tax-evaders-between-us-and-5-eu-govts/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:27:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66467 GenevaLunch.com Britain, France, Germany, Italy Spain: US citizens’ bank data in exchange for US reporting some of their citizens’ bank accounts Overseas Americans already caught in crosshairs GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A proposed deal that is being hailed by the six countries involved as a step forward in their fight against international tax evasion ironically borrows from [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/09/ec-hails-proposed-deal-to-catch-tax-evaders-between-us-and-5-eu-govts/feed/ 0 US versus Switzerland over bank details: new battle round opens (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/05/us-versus-switzerland-over-bank-details-new-battle-round-opens-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/05/us-versus-switzerland-over-bank-details-new-battle-round-opens-update/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:21:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61177 GenevaLunch.com US pressure on Swiss for bank names accompanies Fatca, FBar pressure on overseas Americans ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Two Swiss-German newspapers spilled the news Sunday 4 September that the US is pressuring Switzerland with a short deadline and legal threats over bank data related to Americans suspected of hiding taxable assets in Switzerland. SonntagsZeitung and NZZ [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/05/us-versus-switzerland-over-bank-details-new-battle-round-opens-update/feed/ 6 Swiss ministry confirms holding “informal” tax, bank accounts talks with UShttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/swiss-ministry-confirms-holding-informal-tax-bank-accounts-talks-with-us/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/swiss-ministry-confirms-holding-informal-tax-bank-accounts-talks-with-us/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:05:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58731 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss spokesman for the new State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF), Mario Tuor, has confirmed that Switzerland and the US have been holding “informal talks” to explore solutions to the problem of undeclared assets held by Americans in Swiss bank accounts, but he told Reuters Friday 10 June that many [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/swiss-ministry-confirms-holding-informal-tax-bank-accounts-talks-with-us/feed/ 2 US pursuit of tax avoiders pins Swiss resident, Credit Suisse bankerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/23/us-pursuit-of-tax-avoiders-pins-swiss-resident-credit-suisse-banker/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/23/us-pursuit-of-tax-avoiders-pins-swiss-resident-credit-suisse-banker/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:44:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54458 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The US Department of Justice appears to be stepping up efforts to track cases of tax fraud tied to Switzerland, with two new cases: the arrest in New York of a Credit Suisse banker last week and “information” charges filed in Ohio against a US man who heads a Geneva-based hedge [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/23/us-pursuit-of-tax-avoiders-pins-swiss-resident-credit-suisse-banker/feed/ 2 Sanity seekers startle stony-faced Geneva Reformershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/01/sanity-seekers-startle-stony-faced-geneva-reformers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/01/sanity-seekers-startle-stony-faced-geneva-reformers/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:13:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49225 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The crowd was far smaller than those in the United States, but some of Geneva’s American citizens showed up at the Bastions park Saturday 30 October as part of the US Rally to Restore Sanity. The Geneva event was organized by the group Vote from Abroad, which is making a push [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/01/sanity-seekers-startle-stony-faced-geneva-reformers/feed/ 0 US voters in Switzerland encouraged to re-registerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/us-voters-in-switzerland-encouraged-to-re-register/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/us-voters-in-switzerland-encouraged-to-re-register/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:46:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=46853 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - American voters abroad, including those in Switzerland, are being encouraged to register again to vote, by the Overseas Vote Foundation. The group notes that: “New regulations for overseas voting are in effect for 2010. To be sure you get your ballot, we strongly encourage overseas voters to refile the official registration/ballot [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/09/us-voters-in-switzerland-encouraged-to-re-register/feed/ 0 US taxpayers abroad: mini jargon busterhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/06/us-taxpayers-abroad-mini-jargon-buster/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/06/us-taxpayers-abroad-mini-jargon-buster/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 18:43:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=41551 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Taxpayers who met with tax and estate planning experts in Geneva Tuesday 4 May complained that the jargon which surrounds US taxes for those who lived abroad is a barrier to filing. Here is a list, by no means extensive, of some of the terms that came up at the meeting. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/06/us-taxpayers-abroad-mini-jargon-buster/feed/ 2 US taxpayers abroad struggle to make sense of laws, lingohttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/06/us-taxpayers-abroad-struggle-to-make-sense-of-laws-lingo/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/06/us-taxpayers-abroad-struggle-to-make-sense-of-laws-lingo/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 18:41:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=41376 GenevaLunch.com Editor’s note: the meeting in Geneva invoked the Chatham House Rule to encourage open discussion, so no names or identities of participants and presenters can be revealed Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Confusion replaced 2009′s anger and a black mood when a group of mainly Americans gathered in Geneva for the second time in nine months [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/06/us-taxpayers-abroad-struggle-to-make-sense-of-laws-lingo/feed/ 3 US sends FBI to Mexicohttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/16/us-sends-fbi-to-mexico/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/16/us-sends-fbi-to-mexico/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:31:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38695 GenevaLunch.com The US Saturday warned its staff to send families out of Juarez, Mexico, where it has a consulate, shortly before three of its staff were killed in drive-by shootings in the border city, famous for its violence. The US is now sending eight FBI investigators to join Mexican agents looking into the shootings, and US [...]

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