"Swiss banking secrecy will not be abolished: it is deeply rooted in our Constitution."
With these words the President of the Swiss Confederation - Hans Rudolf Merz - spoke to their citizens through a press TV.
The message, sent to unified networks, dating back to March 2009, a series of events had caused tensions between the United States and Switzerland.
The facts: some of the major banks were accused of having opened accounts for U.S. taxpayers who had stolen money owed to the IRS, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
the same period, a former employee of Liechtenstein bank LGT Group of the German government sold a file containing a list of accounts payable to hundreds of citizens in the principality.
News of this magnitude have followed continuously over the last months, as if, the case exploded last year, had literally "uncovered" a huge can of worms.
Surprisingly, in recent days, we read the newspaper "Il Corriere del Ticino" that even the Swiss Federal Tax Administration Tax Administration received information about the German Swiss taxpayers, that provides matching funds, not declared, deposited in current accounts of a bank in Liechtenstein.
This information was actually used by the IRS Elvetico to initiate administrative proceedings against their taxpayers.
It should be noted, therefore, an incredible contradiction, and perhaps even a certain hypocrisy: on the one hand we have a country, a people who still believe in the institution of banking secrecy, at least in its original conception to protect the privacy of citizens sheet. We have a Swiss parliament, through its members, calls for censorship of the French and German governments who bought illegally stolen data, calling on the Swiss administration to reject one's own contribution to governments that act on the basis of such behavior.
In fact, the same data used by the Swiss tax authorities reported stolen by their nationals illegally.
In his speech of March 2009, Swiss President Merz was also added: "Banking secrecy can not be used to cover the wrongdoing ...."
It 'true that taxpayers who have diverted to the tax income is not declared, sticking to the initiatives taken by your country to "regularize" the fiscal position, and that the position taken, for the management of the accrued income, banking relationships that take place on should show the same fairness and legality.
The era of banking secrecy, related to personal bank accounts of taxpayers who do not declare fully their income is now complete.
thus opens the way to TAX TAX COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS, through the creation of instruments to calibrate, more and more correct, the tax bill with the actual ability to pay each subject to taxation.
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