Wegelin & Co., the oldest Swiss bank, was indicted Feb. 2 for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers to hide more than $1.2 billion in secret accounts from the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department announced in unsealing the grand jury indictment from a federal court in Manhattan (United States v. Wegelin,S.D.N.Y., No. 81 12 Cr. 02…
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Federal Court Orders Iowa Man and Eight Companies to Pay Employment Taxes
Watts Trucking Service, Inc., and Other Corporations Allegedly Owe Over $30 Million. A federal court has ordered James Watts and eight corporations to begin paying employment taxes to the United States on a timely basis, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint in the case, Watts, of Bettendorf, Iowa, is the president…
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Swiss Turn Over Encrypted Bank Data to U.S. Prosecutors
NEW YORK TIMES ZURICH — Switzerland has turned over to the U.S. authorities encrypted data on bank employees who served American clients suspected of dodging taxes, and will only provide the key to decipher the information once a legal dispute is settled, the Swiss Finance Ministry said Tuesday. Swiss banks have provided tens of thousands…
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Three UBS Clients Accused of Hiding Offshore Money From IRS
Bloomberg - Three ex-UBS AG (UBSN) clients, including two who ran venture capital firms, were indicted on charges of hiding millions of dollars in assets from U.S. tax authorities through the use of secret offshore accounts. Read more at: Tax Times blog
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