WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- A new U.S.-Swiss treaty on bank secrecy may not help the Internal Revenue Service catch tax evaders, a Swiss official says.
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 27 (UPI) -- Swiss Bankers Association Chairman Pierre Mirabaud called international efforts to rein in tax evaders with foreign accounts "an economic war."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Criminal tax lawyers say a growing number of U.S. clients with secret Swiss bank accounts want to come clean with the IRS to avoid prosecution.
MIAMI, July 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge in Miami Tuesday allowed the Internal Revenue Service to seek a Swiss bank's list of accounts to hunt for U.S. citizens who may be dodging taxes.
MIAMI, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department went to court Monday to try to get a Swiss bank's account records so the IRS can hunt for U.S. tax evaders, federal officials said.
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 30 (UPI) -- Beginning July 1, Swiss banks will no longer offer anonymous, numbered accounts in an effort to fight fraud and terrorist financing.
BERN, Switzerland, June 24 (UPI) -- Swiss government investigators say al-Qaida might have used Swiss bank accounts as secret funding hubs.
BERN, Switzerland, June 22 (UPI) -- Swiss promises to break tradition by withholding taxes on interest earned in foreigners' private accounts might take effect six months later than planned.
BELGRADE, Serbia, June 18 (UPI) -- Officials from former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic's regime, including former Serbian Prime Minster Mirko Marjanovic, have funneled about $4 million in