21 August 2009
The IRS is making serious noise about its attempts to combat offshore tax evasion. What could be a better pulpit than its high profile UBS matter? Just a short while after details on the UBS settlement were released, the IRS announced the indictments of a former UBS bank executive and a Swiss attorney. Hansruedi Schumacher, [...]
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13 November 2008
Raoul Weil, the UBS bank chair and CEO of global wealth management, has been indicted on charges relating to tax evasion. He is accused of helping US taxpayers hide nearly $20 billion (yes, with a b) in assets from the IRS. After the indictment was made public, Weil, not surprisingly, agreed to step down from [...]
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