
“The Swiss federal government has accepted a United States demand to settle a dispute over the alleged complicity of Swiss banks in tax evasion by Americans that will reportedly cost the banks billions of francs. Swiss media have reported that the overall figure could hit 10 billion francs ($10.3 billion). ‘If a bank has done a lot of business involving undeclared American funds, it will be a big problem for it,’ Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said. She indicated that the Swiss government had been presented with a take it or leave it offer by Washington. ‘It was a unilateral offer, one that we couldn’t negotiate,’ she said.”
http://www.thelocal.ch/20130529/bern-agrees-to-settle-tax-evasion-dispute-with-us
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