{"id":6165,"date":"2010-02-22T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:20:35","slug":"swiss-minister-questions-tax-evasion-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/22\/swiss-minister-questions-tax-evasion-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss minister questions tax evasion rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE61K07220100221?type=marketsNews\">Swiss minister questions tax evasion rule | Reuters <\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Switzerland's justice minister questioned on Sunday whether tax evasion should continue to be treated as a misdemeanour rather than a crime, in another blow to the country's cherished banking secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland has already abandoned the distinction between tax evasion -- failing to declare your income or wealth to the taxman -- and tax fraud -- deliberately misleading the revenue -- for foreigners investing money in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More signs of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I know it will need a referendum to get through - but without leaders willing to make the case for even putting the question to a vote that can't happen.<\/p>\n<p>So this is real progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss minister questions tax evasion rule | Reuters . Switzerland&#8217;s justice minister questioned on Sunday whether tax evasion should continue to be treated as a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/22\/swiss-minister-questions-tax-evasion-rule\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","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=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}