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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Milena Velba Nadine Jansen Sauna
Both ado about nothing!
The reaction of the Italian press Agreement Switzerland / US UBS
The Italian press reaction to the heat of the agreement between Switzerland and the USA on the UBS story is a demonstration of the need to distort the meaning of events to suit the needs of cash State.
The media campaign to "push" the Italian taxpayer to accede to the 2009 Tax Shield also involves the publication of information and terrorist unfounded.
Excellent analysis Paul Bernasconi
Bernasconi says that the agreement is simply a confirmation of the application of procedures under the tax treaty signed in 1996 by two countries: (full post here ... ...)
The reaction of the Italian press Agreement Switzerland / US UBS The Italian press reaction to the heat of the agreement between Switzerland and the USA on the UBS story is a demonstration of the need to distort the meaning of events to suit the needs of cash State.
The media campaign to "push" the Italian taxpayer to accede to the 2009 Tax Shield also involves the publication of information and terrorist unfounded.
Excellent analysis Paul Bernasconi
the contrary is a model for objective analysis of the US / Switzerland presented the "Sole 24 Ore" by Paolo Bernasconi (photo ), a former Swiss public prosecutor, a lawyer, a leading expert in the financial sector ( link).
Bernasconi says that the agreement is simply a confirmation of the application of procedures under the tax treaty signed in 1996 by two countries: (full post here ... ...)
Toddlers Thirsty All The Time
What is the secret Swiss bank
The current state
The Swiss banking secrecy is a tool to support the protection of privacy. Perceived by citizens as a legitimate means to balance the power of the state, bank secrecy is deeply rooted in the consciousness of svizzeri.
La democrazia svizzera concepisce il rapporto tra Stato e cittadino a gerarchia rovesciata: lo svizzero fa parte del “popolo sovrano” e non è suddito dello Stato. In Svizzera, i cittadini non vivono per lo Stato, ma è lo Stato ad essere a disposizione dei cittadini. Lo Stato deve fornire al cittadino i mezzi per poter difendere quella che in Svizzera è definita “la sfera privata”.
La principale differenza tra la Svizzera e le altre nazioni democratiche è che l’ambito della sfera privata è allargato anche ai dati patrimoniali e d’affari. Il diritto alla privacy non difende solo le informazioni in relazione alla religione, ai gusti sessuali, alla fede politica del cittadino, but protects against unauthorized interference by the state or other persons.
The Swiss are horrified at the description of the possibility of a mid-level official of an agency of the Provincial Revenue has to know the data sheet of the taxpayer.
The average Swiss is chilled by the lack of sensitivity that led to the publication in Italian newspapers of lists "of the rich."
Swiss banking secrecy is not a "loophole" law to attract foreign investors and their capital in Swiss banks. It is an internal tool, created by the Swiss for the Swiss and strongly desired by the people.
In recent months, the secret bancario ha subito fortissimi attacchi da parte di Stati notevolmente più potenti della piccola Svizzera. La reazione degli svizzeri a questi attacchi è stata decisa, molto vigorosa, la percezione è stata quella di un attacco all’indipendenza del paese, alle sue abitudini democratiche, al rispetto delle prerogative del cittadino svizzero. Gli ambienti di destra hanno immediatamente lanciato una iniziativa popolare per difendere il segreto bancario. L’argomentazione principale è la difesa della patria dalle ingordigie dei paesi confinanti: Italia, Francia e Germania. Esaminando la locandina utilizzata, dalla destra politica, per propagandare la difesa del segreto bancario è facile percepire l’ansia dei settori economici che sarebbero affected by the end of the secret.
an initiative launched by the left in 1984, aiming at the abolition of banking secrecy was rejected by 73% of voters.
These data provide evidence that banking secrecy is part of the Swiss DNA.
A publication of the Swiss Federal is instructive in this regard:
"What is freedom? What does independence mean? And what have to do these two concepts with the Swiss banking secrecy and tax law? For many it may seem at first glance hard to find a link between these concepts. Yet this link exists. It lies in the basic perception of direct democracy, in state building bottom-up and interpretation
Swiss citizens' rights. The Swiss historian Herbert Lüthy found that the wealth of nations lies an appeal to human rights, an appeal to "a clear and simple system of natural liberty that allows each to pursue their own interests, to dispose of their way her work and what belongs to him, and go where he wants to carry on trade and to free the state from the tyrannical and impossible to assign a time of their activities to all its citizens, to monitor and guide them to an alleged Wellness - without even knowing it or meaning to the individuals they serve much better in freedom market '. This description expresses the liberal view of the Swiss. "
( Banking secrecy and international tax issues )
How not to get drawn to a concept of freedom as that expressed in these few lines?
The Swiss banking secrecy is a tool to support the protection of privacy. Perceived by citizens as a legitimate means to balance the power of the state, bank secrecy is deeply rooted in the consciousness of svizzeri.
La democrazia svizzera concepisce il rapporto tra Stato e cittadino a gerarchia rovesciata: lo svizzero fa parte del “popolo sovrano” e non è suddito dello Stato. In Svizzera, i cittadini non vivono per lo Stato, ma è lo Stato ad essere a disposizione dei cittadini. Lo Stato deve fornire al cittadino i mezzi per poter difendere quella che in Svizzera è definita “la sfera privata”.
La principale differenza tra la Svizzera e le altre nazioni democratiche è che l’ambito della sfera privata è allargato anche ai dati patrimoniali e d’affari. Il diritto alla privacy non difende solo le informazioni in relazione alla religione, ai gusti sessuali, alla fede politica del cittadino, but protects against unauthorized interference by the state or other persons.
The Swiss are horrified at the description of the possibility of a mid-level official of an agency of the Provincial Revenue has to know the data sheet of the taxpayer.
The average Swiss is chilled by the lack of sensitivity that led to the publication in Italian newspapers of lists "of the rich."
Swiss banking secrecy is not a "loophole" law to attract foreign investors and their capital in Swiss banks. It is an internal tool, created by the Swiss for the Swiss and strongly desired by the people.
In recent months, the secret bancario ha subito fortissimi attacchi da parte di Stati notevolmente più potenti della piccola Svizzera. La reazione degli svizzeri a questi attacchi è stata decisa, molto vigorosa, la percezione è stata quella di un attacco all’indipendenza del paese, alle sue abitudini democratiche, al rispetto delle prerogative del cittadino svizzero. Gli ambienti di destra hanno immediatamente lanciato una iniziativa popolare per difendere il segreto bancario. L’argomentazione principale è la difesa della patria dalle ingordigie dei paesi confinanti: Italia, Francia e Germania. Esaminando la locandina utilizzata, dalla destra politica, per propagandare la difesa del segreto bancario è facile percepire l’ansia dei settori economici che sarebbero affected by the end of the secret.
an initiative launched by the left in 1984, aiming at the abolition of banking secrecy was rejected by 73% of voters.
These data provide evidence that banking secrecy is part of the Swiss DNA.
A publication of the Swiss Federal is instructive in this regard:
"What is freedom? What does independence mean? And what have to do these two concepts with the Swiss banking secrecy and tax law? For many it may seem at first glance hard to find a link between these concepts. Yet this link exists. It lies in the basic perception of direct democracy, in state building bottom-up and interpretation
Swiss citizens' rights. The Swiss historian Herbert Lüthy found that the wealth of nations lies an appeal to human rights, an appeal to "a clear and simple system of natural liberty that allows each to pursue their own interests, to dispose of their way her work and what belongs to him, and go where he wants to carry on trade and to free the state from the tyrannical and impossible to assign a time of their activities to all its citizens, to monitor and guide them to an alleged Wellness - without even knowing it or meaning to the individuals they serve much better in freedom market '. This description expresses the liberal view of the Swiss. "
( Banking secrecy and international tax issues )
How not to get drawn to a concept of freedom as that expressed in these few lines?
Wording For Memorial Plaques
limits of Swiss banking secrecy
is possible that in future, the Convention against double taxation that links Italy and Switzerland can be changed. In this case it is possible that a further opening in the Italian banking secrecy may serve the Administration for exposing their infidel taxpayers. But this is music of a remote future, perhaps.
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The current limits of banking secrecy
Switzerland protects the privacy of bank customers with a strong banking secrecy. The Law provides that the owner of bank secrecy is the customer. The bank is the custodian of information about assets and affairs of the client, which is the only person who can authorize the bank to disclose information to third parties.
The AML Law
to this basic rule are applied to certain exceptions. The anti-money laundering compliance requires the bank, in the case of strong suspicion that the customer makes the transaction, to disclose the customer data and its transactions with a government agency.
MROS , this is the name of the Federal Office of Communication on money laundering, it produces every year a report activities. From this report shows that over the past 10 years, Swiss banks have reported an average of 350 to MROS data reports, in 2008 the number of reports has reached 572.
What are the motives for financial intermediaries, including banks, to submit the data to the business relationship? The answer to this question is important, since the communication MROS can lead the bank's customer to have to explain the meaning of its banking transactions to a Swiss public prosecutor.
The motivation for communicate with the authorities against money laundering
During 2008 the ground covered in 26% of cases information from third parties, aware of details in relation to the customer and its activities, in 23% of cases, the information of the mass media, in 15% of cases direct request of the Swiss Attorney General, in 13% of cases the lack of clarity in the financial operations of the customer.
alleged crimes for which communication is enabled are: scam or fraud, including tax (39%), corruption (9%), breach of trust (8%), the proceeds of criminal activities (6%) proceeds from the drug trade (4%), lack of plausibility of the transaction (3%).
Other limits to the protection of banking secrecy
Under the provisions of civil law there are other limits on bank secrecy. These limits are given by the enforcement provisions of the bankruptcy and criminal law. Consequently, the protection offered by banking secrecy may be removed by order of a judge or supervisory authorities, such as the supervisory authority of the grant to investigate possible insider trading.
The exchange of banking information between tax authorities
This type of exchange of information is governed by bilateral tax treaties between two countries. The model for these conventions and standards as defined by the OECD. This model shows how very extensive exchange of information:
The exchange takes place directly between the tax authorities of both countries and can cover a wide range of different information.
Switzerland does not apply the OECD model of information exchange
Switzerland has signed about 70 agreements with many of these states. Unlike the OECD Model provides for Switzerland has opted for a minimum of information exchange, which has been accepted by other countries (including Italy). In practice, these agreements do not provide the exchange of information between tax authorities, this exchange can not take place because the information is protected by bank secrecy.
For example, the Convention against double taxation that Italy and Switzerland committed, still in force, stipulates in its article 27: "They can not be exchanged which would disclose any trade secrets, banking, industrial or professional or business methods."
limits of banking secrecy
Objectively Swiss banking secrecy does not serve to hide the funds of criminal origin.
can serve to hide the proceeds of tax evasion. Of course, only if the taxpayer does not unfaithful is guilty of such crimes as tax evasion or tax fraud.
can serve to hide the proceeds of tax evasion. Of course, only if the taxpayer does not unfaithful is guilty of such crimes as tax evasion or tax fraud.
The non-declaration or tax evasion are not crimes for which the Swiss banking secrecy is lifted, so the money of Italian tax evaders can be safely deposited in Swiss banks, so far.
is possible that in future, the Convention against double taxation that links Italy and Switzerland can be changed. In this case it is possible that a further opening in the Italian banking secrecy may serve the Administration for exposing their infidel taxpayers. But this is music of a remote future, perhaps.
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