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IRS voluntary disclosure program

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • August 28 2009

On August 19, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement agreement with UBS regarding certain accounts held at the bank by U.S. persons

Swiss-US Safe Harbor Framework signed

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • February 6 2009

On December 9, 2008, an exchange of letters was signed by the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) on the creation of a “Swiss-US Safe Harbor Framework”, which is comparable to the “EU-US Safe Harbor Framework”

IRS announces settlement agreement between Switzerland and the U.S. (IR-2009-75)

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • September 16 2009

On August 19, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Justice Department announced that they had reached an agreement with UBS AG (UBS) regarding the IRS John Doe summons to obtain approximately 4,450 names of U.S. taxpayers with accounts in UBS

International regulatory update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • April 4 2011

The Ministry of Justice has published its final guidance under section 9 of the Bribery Act 2010 about procedures that relevant commercial organisations can put in place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing

Technical advice to the European Commission on the equivalence of supervisory arrangements in Switzerland and the United States with regard to bankinginvestment groups and financial conglomerates

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, Switzerland, USA
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  • March 3 2008

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) have published a joint response of CEBS and the Interim Working Committee on financial conglomerates

Swiss announce negotiations for a new tax treaty with the United Statesnew provisions may enhance exchange of information and limitation on benefits provisions

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • March 24 2009

On March 19, 2009, Swiss Minister of Finance Hanz-Rudolf Merz announced that the United States (in addition to France and Japan) has requested negotiations for a new income tax treaty

IRS in discussions with Swiss bank UBS over identification of bank clients suspected of tax evasion

  • Foley Hoag LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • August 5 2009

On July 13, a federal judge in Miami granted a joint motion to stay an evidentiary hearing that was to be held as a result of a petition from the United States that the Swiss bank UBS be compelled to disclose the names of 52,000 American clients who were suspected of tax evasion

Agreement between the United States and Swiss governments will require UBS to disclose 4,450 Swiss accounts held by U.S. citizens or residents

  • Lane Powell PC
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • August 19 2009

U.S. citizens or residents holding undeclared accounts with UBS AG ("UBS") should take note of the agreement made on August 19, 2009, between the United States and Swiss governments to settle the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against UBS seeking the names of U.S. citizens or residents holding Swiss accounts with UBS

The UBS scandal: voluntary disclosure

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada, Switzerland, USA
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  • December 3 2009

Unless you have stopped reading newspapers, watching television or listening to the radio then it is more than likely that you have heard something about the UBS scandal

Detailed bank dress code sparks debate

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • December 22 2010

Last week, a 43-page Dress Code Manual that UBS is piloting in a few of its Swiss branches was leaked to the press, resulting in a brief media feeding frenzy about the value of strict dress codes for employers