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February 26th, 2015
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HSBC bosses Stuart Gulliver and Douglas Flint apologise to MPs over Swiss private banking scandal
February 26th, 2015
Stuart Gulliver, HSBC‘s chief executive and Douglas Flint, the embattled bank’s chairman, have apologised for “unacceptable” practices at its Swiss private banking arm. During questioning by the Treasury Select Committee, Gulliver admitted the scandal had caused “damage to trust” in HSBC, ...
HSBC, Hong Kong Under Scanner As US Steps Up Investigation Of American Tax Frauds
January 5th, 2015
HSBC Holdings and the city of Hong Kong, which were last month linked to an international tax evasion network, are currently under scrutiny as part of efforts by U.S. authorities to hunt down American tax evaders, the South China ...
Bank Pays $400m Fine For Aiding US Tax Evasion
January 5th, 2015
A leading Israeli bank has agreed to pay the US government $400 million compensation for helping US customers evade tax. Bank Leumi confessed to advising 1,500 wealthy Americans how to evade taxes over several years. The bank ran secret ...
Hong Kong Plugs Commitment To Tax Info Exchange
December 1st, 2014
Financial Secretary John C Tsang stressed how Hong Kong has made substantial efforts to introduce the new global standard for the automatic exchange of tax information, while also ensuring data confidentiality, during his speech at the first Certified Tax ...
Governments sign deal against tax evasion
October 30th, 2014
Fifty-one countries have pledged to pass on financial data after signing an agreement in Berlin to crack down on tax evasion. The transparency drive, which will launch the automatic exchange of tax information between countries, was hailed by finance ...
Mauritius shares tax data directly
September 29th, 2014
Mauritius has confirmed that it will implement the Common Reporting Standard for automatic exchange of tax information between territories, based on the standards drawn up by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The announcement comes after Mauritius ...
US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Takes Force
July 3rd, 2014
In what the United States Administration has called an “effort to crack down on tax evasion and reduce the tax gap,” the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act came into effect on July 1. Enacted in March 2010, FATCA adds ...
Offshore Tax Crackdown Opens With 30% Penalties for Banks
June 30th, 2014
The Internal Revenue Service is about to get an unprecedented look at bank accounts and investments U.S. citizens hold abroad, through a law that is making it harder to hide assets from the tax collector. Tomorrow, the U.S. government ...
US pivotal to OECD tax plan
May 20th, 2014
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the OECD’s plan to reduce tax base erosion and profit-shifting, as laudable as it is, is hugely reliant on the US making significant and drastic alterations to its corporate regime if it is to ...