{"id":14048,"date":"2012-02-07T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2012-02-07T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:55:01","slug":"all-over-for-the-german-swiss-tax-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/07\/all-over-for-the-german-swiss-tax-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"All over for the German &#8211; Swiss tax deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it may all be ove very soon fro the German - Swiss tax deal that broadly\u00a0replicates\u00a0the appalling UK - Swiss one. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tax-news.com\/news\/SwissGerman_Tax_Deal_Under_Threat____53831.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tax-News \u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Social Democrat (SPD) controlled states throughout Germany reportedly plan to block the bilateral tax agreement between Switzerland and Germany in the German Bundesrat, or upper house of parliament, during a crucial vote on February 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to Baden-W\u00c3\u00bcrttemberg\u2019s Finance Minister Nils Schmid (SPD), German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch\u00c3\u00a4uble will no longer be able to prevent a defeat in the upper house. Schmid warned that it is \u201chighly unlikely\u201d that the agreement will receive the country\u2019s support, arguing that the proposed level of taxation of undeclared German assets held in the Confederation is \u201csimply too small\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Quite so.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So that would just leave the Osborne \/ Hartnett UK - Swiss folly standing.\u00a0Why do both get it wrong so often?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it may all be ove very soon fro the German &#8211; Swiss tax deal that broadly\u00a0replicates\u00a0the appalling UK &#8211; Swiss one. As<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/07\/all-over-for-the-german-swiss-tax-deal\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}