Tag Archives: Swiss Bank Accounts

Credit Suisse testifies before Senate about secret Swiss bank accounts and plans to provide more names to IRS. As the United States Department of Justice closes in on its search through FATCA for US taxpayers who hid their funds to avoid tax liability, several international banks and their employees have been charged with aiding these […]

The Swiss government will consider ways to allow the country’s banks to hand over information to U.S. authorities after parliament blocked the bill that would have allowed the banks to dissolve secrecy laws. The lower house voted two-to-one against the bill, even though the upper house had backed it. The bill is the result of […]

Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, announced on January 3rd it would be closing after more than 2 ½ centuries. This closure is following its guilty plea to charges of helping Americans evade taxes through secret accounts. It is the first foreign bank to plead guilty to U.S. tax charges. The bank admitted […]