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string(1113) "<p>EU rules allow UK residents to declare interest earned overseas or to have 15% withheld from interest in the country where the account is held. </p><p>Separately, a report says MPs are calling for a review into the use of havens by taxpayer-backed banks. <!-- E SF --></p><p>Under the EU rules, three-quarters of the 15% in tax on interest that is withheld offshore is eventually paid to the UK government. </p><p>But this means that the effective amount collected by HM Revenue and Customs was 11.25% - rather than the 40% which would typically be paid, the TUC says. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1419) "<p> ZURICH, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Switzerland may have to make some concessions if it does not want to be put on a black list of tax havens, Switzerland's president and finance minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p><span id="midArticle_0"></span> <p> Banking secrecy is entrenched in Switzerland, in law and also the mentality of the people, and the country does not want to give it up but "certain matters of fact must be up for debate," Hans-Rudolf Merz said in the country's capital Berne, according to news agency SDA.</p><span id="midArticle_1"></span> <p> "We will perhaps have to make concessions in some cases or others," Merz said, adding that otherwise sanctions could be taken against Swiss banks and the country could be put on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's black list of tax havens.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1646) "<div>The latest development comes on the heels of a groundbreaking concession. Last week, UBS agreed to demands by the US taxing agency to release the names of about 250 private account holders, who may have used UBS to evade taxes in the US. <div class="dvbxImg"><img src="http://www.livemint.com/images/6A11CBF7-BDD2-49C5-846A-3F5EEC71B433ArtVPF.gif" alt="Illustration: Jayachandran / Mint" title="Illustration: Jayachandran / Mint" align="left" width="227" height="191" /><div class="dvbxImgCapt" style="width: 227px;"><br /></div></div></div><div>But the push and pull between the US and Swiss banking system has broader resonance for the global financial system: Secretive banks and tax havens—free from regulatory scrutiny—are simply unacceptable.</div><div>Swiss banks have long been a safe haven for the loot of autocratic strongmen. Reports abound of the most reviled individuals of the 20th century stashing their funds in Swiss accounts, including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and those close to Saddam Hussein. In 2001, the US accused Swiss banks of clearing Osama bin Laden’s financing.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1420) "A federal judge has set a July 13 hearing for UBS, in which they may be forced to disclose names associated with 52,000 secret Swiss bank accounts holding more than $14.8 billion in assets. UBS continues to assert that by providing these names, they are compromising overseas privacy laws as well as the reputation of the bank. <p>”Such violations would expose these employees to substantial prison terms, as well as fines, penalties and other sanctions,” UBS said in a court filing last week. “There is simply no reason to have, nor equity in having, such an expedited process here.”</p> <p>UBS is feeling the heat from a surge of international pressure to crack down on secret tax havens sought by the wealthy. Estimating the U.S. loses $100 billion a year from offshore tax abuse, President Obama is at the forefront of the campaign to get tough on tax evasion. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1249) "An online campaign was launched today by Christian Aid urging supporters to lobby their MPs in an attempt to bring tax justice to developing nations.<br /><br />The charity said creative accounting by large multinational companies was allowing them to evade taxes in countries which had neither the resources nor the expertise to effectively deal with them.<br /><br />They are asking supporters to pressure their MP to lobby Gordon Brown on the need to an end to off-shore banking secrecy.<br /><br />Matthew Sowemimo, Christian Aid's tax campaign officer, said: "We are asking supporters to get their MPs involved.<br /><br />"When an MP writes to the prime minister, he or she has to receive a personal reply.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1571) "The world, as Arthur Schopenhauer observed, is a business that doesn’t cover its expenses. This wasn’t idle metaphysics but first-hand experience. The Schopenhauer family had been wealthy stockbrokers in the free trade city of Hamburg. Then the European economy collapsed and they lost everything.<br /><br /> Two hundred years later, there is much that Schopenhauer would find familiar in the landscape of bank failures, collapsed companies and growing unemployment. What lies behind the global recession is a particularly virile form of capitalism, now seemingly in its death throes. Let’s call it “offshore” capitalism — literally so in the way it had locked itself into a network of tax havens and offshore finance centers that formed the shadow side of the world’s banks and mega-corporations. But this was offshore in a metaphorical sense too — it produced financial structures and instruments so absurdly technical and abstract that the net effect was a freakishly remote economic system, detached from society.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1047) "<p>Time is running out for tens of thousands of wealthy taxpayers--including many from New Jersey--who thought they could safely hide their money in off-shore banks. </p> <p>"It's time to come in from the cold," says Larry Horn, a lawyer specializing in tax issues with the Newark firm of Sills Cummis & Gross. "Taxpayers who voluntarily turn themselves in now will likely escape criminal prosecution." </p><img src="http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2009/03/large_Larry-Horn-criminal-tax-specialist.JPG" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1289) "<p>The bill comes just two days ahead of a Senate hearing where a senior UBS AG executive is due to testify about an investigation of the Swiss banking giant.</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span> <p>"Offshore tax haven and tax shelter abuses are undermining the integrity of our tax system," said Levin in a statement given to Reuters. "We cannot tolerate $100 billion in offshore tax abuses burning a hole through our budget each year.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span> <p>"We can fight back against secrecy jurisdictions and shut down offshore tax abuses if we have the political will."</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span> <p>Companion legislation is expected to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the aides said.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1278) "<p>Secret offshore bank accounts are the stuff of legend. This article intends to debunk some of the myths about secret offshore banking by setting out what is and isn't possible.</p> <p>1) It's impossible to open an offshore bank account without first somehow identifying yourself. This means sending a notarized copy of your bank account/passport details to the bank or intermediary.</p> <p>2) Most offshore banks will also require a reference from a bank at home.</p> <p>3) If you open an offshore account in the name of your offshore company, you still need to provide all the formation documents, and the name and address of a real person. No bank will let a faceless entity open an account without pinning it down to a real person.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1249) "An online campaign was launched today by Christian Aid urging supporters to lobby their MPs in an attempt to bring tax justice to developing nations.<br /><br />The charity said creative accounting by large multinational companies was allowing them to evade taxes in countries which had neither the resources nor the expertise to effectively deal with them.<br /><br />They are asking supporters to pressure their MP to lobby Gordon Brown on the need to an end to off-shore banking secrecy.<br /><br />Matthew Sowemimo, Christian Aid's tax campaign officer, said: "We are asking supporters to get their MPs involved.<br /><br />"When an MP writes to the prime minister, he or she has to receive a personal reply.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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string(1571) "The world, as Arthur Schopenhauer observed, is a business that doesn’t cover its expenses. This wasn’t idle metaphysics but first-hand experience. The Schopenhauer family had been wealthy stockbrokers in the free trade city of Hamburg. Then the European economy collapsed and they lost everything.<br /><br /> Two hundred years later, there is much that Schopenhauer would find familiar in the landscape of bank failures, collapsed companies and growing unemployment. What lies behind the global recession is a particularly virile form of capitalism, now seemingly in its death throes. Let’s call it “offshore” capitalism — literally so in the way it had locked itself into a network of tax havens and offshore finance centers that formed the shadow side of the world’s banks and mega-corporations. But this was offshore in a metaphorical sense too — it produced financial structures and instruments so absurdly technical and abstract that the net effect was a freakishly remote economic system, detached from society.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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