UBS和瑞士政府繳械投降,IRS收回傳票 - offer

全世界最中立的國家瑞士,也是抵擋不住IRS的火力,尤其是背後白宮主人
全力支持.UBS共付了780 million和解金給美國政府.

18,000人自動賠款申報,平均二十萬美金的補稅和罰金.免去一場牢災.


http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/IRS-Withdraws-UBS-Summons-56329-1.html

The U.S. and Swiss governments struck an agreement in August 2009 for UBS to
provide the identities of 4,450 U.S. account holders at the bank (see UBS to
Disclose 4,450 Bank Account Names). The IRS had been seeking the names of
52,000 accounts of suspects through John Doe summonses.

Under the agreement, the IRS would withdraw the remaining John Doe summonses
on or after Jan. 1, 2010, once it had received the identities behind 10,000
UBS accounts. Those names could come from the Swiss government, UBS, or a
voluntary disclosure program that the IRS offered to taxpayers last year.
They would also include the 250 to 300 names that UBS turned over in February
2009 as part of a deferred prosecution agreement under which the bank agreed
to pay $780 million to the Justice Department.

As part of the August 2009 agreement, the IRS has received approximately
4,000 UBS treaty-request accounts so far, according to Shulman. “We will get
even more after the remaining account-holder appeals have been decided by the
Swiss Federal Administrative Court,” he added. “These UBS treaty request
account holders face a full-blown audit — and potentially more, depending on
the circumstances — unless they came in through the voluntary disclosure
program first.”

Approximately 15,000 taxpayers voluntarily disclosed their accounts at UBS
and other foreign banks as part of the IRS’s voluntary disclosure program

“And these voluntary disclosures continue,” Shulman added. “Since the
special program closed, we have received an additional 3,000 voluntary
disclosures from individuals with bank accounts from around the world. This
is a significant development to get this many people — now over 18,000
individuals and counting — back into our tax system.”

He noted that many of the voluntary disclosure cases involve significant
amounts of previously unpaid taxes. “Account sizes and taxes vary
considerably from case to case, but the closed cases so far have averaged
more than $200,000 in tax collections per case, which includes back taxes,
interest and penalties,” he said.

The IRS has taken additional steps to crack down on offshore tax avoidance.
The agency has renamed and reshaped its large corporate division into the
Large Business and International Division in order to further emphasize and
specialize its international and offshore banking efforts, Shulman noted. The
U.S. also continues to work closely with other governments through the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Shulman said the IRS has also been “scouring the vast quantity of data” it
has received from the voluntary disclosure program and other sources. The IRS
is doing data mining on the information and plans to do more to supplement
and corroborate prior leads, as well as develop new leads, involving numerous
banks, advisors and promoters from around the world.

“And this remains just the start,” said Shulman. “As I have said from the
beginning, this has never been about one bank or one country. We’ve produced
results and will continue to produce results.”

He emphasized that combating international tax evasion has been a top
priority. “We have additional cases and banks in our sights right now,” he
added. “This issue is not going away, and those who try to skirt U.S. tax
laws by hiding assets and income offshore, and the banks and advisors who
help them do it, will find themselves increasingly at risk due to our efforts
in this area.”

國庫是進帳了不少,但就像COD 7每次玩完一回合時的固定台詞
"The war just began". 下一家銀行會是誰?

IRS又不是吃素的,怎麼可能沒去找瑞士拿資料?

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