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Swiss Bank Wegelin Indicted for U.S. Tax Evasion

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

The latest chapter of the IRS versus the Swiss Banks, reveals U.S. Prosecutors taking on the oldest Swiss bank of them all: Wegelin & Co.,
An article in the Wall Street Journal entitled Swiss Bank Wegelin Indicted on U.S. Tax Charges, outlines the criminal charges filed by U.S. Prosecutors on February 2, 2012 against Wegelin & Co., Switzerland’s oldest bank (founded in 1741) alleging that Wegelin knowingly aided wealthy Americans in
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IRS Offshore Tax Evasion Defense Can Benefit Taxpayers of All Income Brackets as Uncle Sam Slams Down on Foreign Bank Account Tax Cheats

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Before the UBS deal of 2009 that sent overseas account holders scrambling to submit their voluntary disclosures before October 15th’s amnesty deadline, many people believed a number of IRS myths: that Swiss Bank Accounts are a “tax fortress” impenetrable by the IRS or that the IRS only cared about the “bigger fish.” However, as we have seen in the past couple of months, this is clearly not the case anymore.
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