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US continues hunt for tax dodgers in Swiss banks

This content was published on Jun 14, 2013 Wegelin, which announced at the beginning of this year it would close its doors, on Friday confirmed reports that it had received notification by Switzerland’s Federal Tax Authorities to comply with the US request, based on a 1996 double taxation agreement. A bank official added that Wegelin would submit the necessary information. The request focuses…

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Swiss benefit financially from migration

This content was published on Jun 14, 2013 The 2013 International Migration Outlook found that migrants to Switzerland helped increase net state tax revenue by at least CHF6.5 billion ($7 billion). Using more generous calculation methods, this could even rise to CHF11 billion, the report stated. This is the equivalent to 1.9 per cent of gross domestic product. The only OECD country with…

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Would you quit your job if you had a state income?

This content was published on Jun 13, 2013 The initiative says creating a new society based on a re-evaluation of work leaves people with the choice of whether to get a paid job and allows them to live a life with less pressure. Is it a utopian idea to give everyone a basic income?

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Old utopian ideal revived on Swiss streets

This content was published on Jun 13, 2013 “Bloody nonsense,” mutters a middle-aged man as he rushes to the entrance of the Basel railway station at the end of May. A young activist with a clipboard has just invited him to sign an initiative launched by a group of people without the support of a major political organisation. The campaigners say it is…

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Senate approves US tax probes bill

This content was published on Jun 12, 2013 The 46-seat chamber on Wednesday approved the plan, designed to solve the issue without overturning Swiss banking secrecy laws, by 24 votes to 15 with two abstentions. Lawmakers are divided over the plan to allow Swiss banks, suspected of helping wealthy Americans hide their money, to disclose data to US prosecutors to help settle investigations…

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Turks in Switzerland divided over protests

This content was published on Jun 11, 2013 Political scientist Can Büyükbay, lawyer Sibel Arslan, and Leyla Gül, Co-General Secretary of the centre-left Swiss Social Democratic Party, hope that the protests in their homeland will lead to permanent changes. They are following the events almost nonstop via social media like Facebook and Twitter. But there are close to 70,000 Turkish citizens living in…

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Snowden and Switzerland, around the Web

This content was published on Jun 11, 2013

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The long road from Guantanamo to Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 11, 2013 More than three years have passed since two Uighur brothers and an Uzbek left Guantanamo Bay. At the request of the United States, Switzerland offered them refuge – a place to begin a new life. The transfer of former inmates held at the detention camp within the American naval base in Cuba is back in…

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US security snooping scandal unnerves Swiss

This content was published on Jun 10, 2013 Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, while admitting that the latest reports would not make relations with the US any easier, told Swiss public radio on Monday evening that it was important to “keep calm”. Relations between the two countries are already strained over an on-going tax evasion row. Switzerland is faced with a US ultimatum…

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Post-vote, Swiss media weigh in on next steps

This content was published on Jun 10, 2013 As the Tribune de Genève put it, there was “no apparent shadow of the Röstigraben” – the imaginary trench that divides the German and French-speaking parts of the country. The loud “yes” to asylum reform, with 78.5 per cent of the vote, is “also a vote of confidence for (Justice Minister) Simonetta Sommaruga” said the…

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