{"id":18989,"date":"2013-01-18T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18989"},"modified":"2013-01-18T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:41:50","slug":"the-swiss-put-on-notice-cooperate-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-swiss-put-on-notice-cooperate-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swiss put on notice: cooperate or else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldradio.ch\/wrs\/news\/wrsnews\/swiss-warned-on-tax-practices.shtml?34194\" target=\"_blank\">World Radio Switzerland has just reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Switzerland has six months to improve its tax practices or it will be blacklisted by the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a warning given by a European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs, Algirdas Semeta, to the print media in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>He says if the EC\u2019s expectations aren\u2019t met some EU countries could adopt \u201cdefensive measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission had wanted Switzerland to agree to an automatic exchange of information, similar to the FATCA law it\u2019s signed with the United States.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">But Switzerland has so far been opposed to such an agreement with the EC.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The friends of tax cheating in Switzerland have long taunted Semeta but this time his threat is not hollow, and he can\u00a0replicate\u00a0it with Austria and Luxembourg too. The fact is that all are signing agreem,ents for automatic\u00a0information\u00a0exchange with the USA. And another fact is that all EU states have 'most\u00a0favoured\u00a0nation' status with all three. So, once they have given full\u00a0automatic information exchange to the USA all other EU countries have the right to dem,and it as well. It's as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>The days of full\u00a0automatic information exchange, as demanded by the\u00a0Tax Justice Network for a\u00a0decade, are on their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Radio Switzerland has just reported: Switzerland has six months to improve its tax practices or it will be blacklisted by the European Commission. That\u2019s<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-swiss-put-on-notice-cooperate-or-else\/\"><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":[62,44,63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-std","category-europe","category-switzerland","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989","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=18989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}