GENEVA: The deal initialled last week between the United States and Switzerland over UBS will involve the disclosure of around 5,000 holders of secret Swiss accounts.
The landmark deal, ending a dispute in which the US tax authorities had sued UBS to disclose 52,000 US clients suspected of tax evasion, dispels a big cloud hanging over [...]
The government on Saturday submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court on the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks stating it has received information about Indian account holders in a German Bank but did not reveal the names on grounds of “confidentiality“.
The Ministry of Finance in a 29-page affidavit said German government [...]
Taking on BJP prime ministerial candidate LK Advani’s demand to bring back Indian money stashed away in Swiss banks, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said the government was already monitoring suspicious financial transactions.
The external affairs minister said the UPA government had already done the ground work for monitoring such transactions through amendment of [...]