{"id":15385,"date":"2012-05-03T10:29:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=15385"},"modified":"2012-05-03T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:29:03","slug":"is-the-uk-switzerland-tax-agreement-a-done-deal-dont-count-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/05\/03\/is-the-uk-switzerland-tax-agreement-a-done-deal-dont-count-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the UK &#8211; Switzerland tax agreement a done deal? Don&#8217;t count on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new UK - Switzerland tax deal is dire.<\/p>\n<p>It lets tax evaders off the hook.<\/p>\n<p>It permits and even seeks to to turn a blind eye to\u00a0continued tax evasion through Swiss banks.<\/p>\n<p>It offers lower tax rates to tax evaders than we have in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0explicitly\u00a0supports\u00a0banking\u00a0secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>Quite bizarrely it gives Swiss banks the right to assess and collect UK tax without any supervision as to whether they are doing so properly.<\/p>\n<p>And it will bring in almost no money.<\/p>\n<p>The Tories will push it through here - as they're big friends of tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>But now there's a new line to the story - <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.ch\/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzz.ch%2Fnachrichten%2Fpolitik%2Fschweiz%2Fschweiz-svp-steuerabkommen-deutschland-grossbritannien-ablehnung_1.16712857.html\" target=\"_blank\">it looks likely that 117 of the 200 members of the Swiss parliament might oppose it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This profoundly\u00a0offensive\u00a0deal is not done yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new UK &#8211; Switzerland tax deal is dire. It lets tax evaders off the hook. It permits and even seeks to to turn a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/05\/03\/is-the-uk-switzerland-tax-agreement-a-done-deal-dont-count-on-it\/\"><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-15385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385","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=15385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}