June 21, 2013 - Swiss bank shares slump after US tax deal collapse
Share prices in Swiss banks plummeted Thursday, a day after lawmakers in Bern rejected a deal with Washington to halt potentially ruinous US legal action agains
June 20, 2013 - Surveying the wreckage of torpedoed US tax deal
"I expect to see another Swiss bank indicted in the near future," Miami tax lawyer Teig Lawrence told swissinfo.ch. "It's just a question of which one will have
June 20, 2013 - media attention for high-profile case flagged in 2010
Protestors turned out today to air their grievances against the Internal Revenue Service and what various speakers described as the intrusive federal government
June 20, 2013 - US tax evasion deal hit with final Swiss defeat
The second defeat means the government-drafted bill fails.
June 20, 2013 - US tax evasion deal hit with final Swiss defeat
A bill that would have allowed Swiss banks to settle a major tax evasion dispute with the US was definitively defeated yesterday when the lower house of the nat
June 19, 2013 - Swiss parliament stalls progress of US tax deal
"Criminal charges are planned. Do you really want to prevent our financial centre and our economy from returning to the stability it so urgently needs?"
July 19, 2013 - Switzerland buries U.S. tax law, banks seen at risk
"The Americans will get the data they want. They will not stop until they have it," said Martin Naville, head of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.
June 19, 2013 - Swiss parliament kills divisive US tax bill
“Parliament must not act without full knowledge of the proposed deal and under pressure,” said Social Democrat Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer.
June 19, 2013 - Swiss Banks Face U.S. Charges as Parliament Rejects Deal
Members of parliament’s lower house voted 123 to 63 against the bill, which would have allowed Swiss banks to cooperate with the U.S. and to settle a long-runni
June 19, 2013 - Swiss parliament rejects U.S. tax deal
Lawmakers from both the lower and upper houses of parliament agreed a statement saying they supported a solution to the long-running tax dispute and called on t
June 19, 2013 - Swiss Lawmakers Extend Debate on US Banks Probe Plan
The lower house is now expected to again take up the measure as soon as Wednesday afternoon. If it is rejected again, lawmakers in the upper house have resolved
June 19, 2013 - Swiss lawmakers nix bank deal with U.S.
"The biggest risks are for the [smaller] banks which are not yet in contact with the Department of Justice," he said. "The uncertainties and the legal risks wil
June 18, 2013 - Swiss Parliament Pushes Back on U.S. Banks Deal
Parliament's summer session is scheduled to end Friday. The autumn session begins Sept. 9.
June 18, 2013 -- Swiss lawmakers reject deal to end US tax spat
By a wide margin of 126-67 with two abstentions, Switzerland's National Council voted not to discuss the measure which is intended to let Swiss banks sidestep s
June 18, 2013 - Foreign banks in Switzerland favour US bank deal
Alfredo Gysi, who heads the Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland, told reporters in Zurich he hoped the lower house of the Swiss parliament would give it