{"id":3579,"date":"2009-04-13T00:03:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2009-04-13T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:03:39","slug":"swiss-government-stands-up-to-oecd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/13\/swiss-government-stands-up-to-oecd\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss government stands up to OECD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/front\/Cabinet_seeks_greater_say_on_tax_haven_laws.html?siteSect=105&amp;sid=10555559&amp;cKey=1239215051000&amp;ty=st\">Swiss government stands up to OECD over tax and outlines its policy. - swissinfo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss are being beligerent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Switzerland will no longer accept lists drawn up by the OECD,\" Merz told a news conference after a special cabinet meeting called to respond to the growing pressure on the Swiss financial centre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what? The sanctions will work anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This is even more absurd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cabinet reiterated that Switzerland has no intention of seeking the suspension of a bilateral treaty with the European Union on a withholding tax on assets of EU citizens held in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Merz ruled out an automatic exchange of information between Brussels and non- EU member Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>However, Switzerland is willing to discuss reforms, in <em>particular a reduction of the savings tax rate<\/em>, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My emphasis added, but note that as ever Switzerland wants to refuse information exchange and explicitly help tax evaders at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>They really are in no position to negotiate. Have they already forgotten that UBS is an admitted i nternational tax fraudster? Or that a SWiss private banker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/03\/24\/this-isnt-petty-this-is-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">has admitted<\/a> half the money will leave the country if secrecy goes? <\/p>\n<p>Get real guys: the game is over and you've been rumbled. <\/p>\n<p>More than that - the new EU STD is on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss government stands up to OECD over tax and outlines its policy. &#8211; swissinfo. The Swiss are being beligerent: &#8220;Switzerland will no longer accept lists<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/13\/swiss-government-stands-up-to-oecd\/\"><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":[14,62,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-eu-std","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}