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The Swiss Parliament today gave approval to amendments to tax treaties with countries, including India, making it easier for to access information about the illegal funds held by their nationals in Swiss private banks. The upper house of the Swiss Parliament endorsed amendments to double-taxation agreements in line with internationally applicable standards. Full Article

Many NGOs and whistleblowers have complained to authorities that Indian money worth several thousands crore was illegally routed to many tax havens and urged government to take strict measures to put a bar on it. Finance Ministry admits it has “no authentic figures” about the quantum of black money deposited in Swiss banks. It is stated that efforts have been made from time to time to seek details of the bank accounts held by Indians in Swiss Confederation under the.. Full Article

Facing flak from India and others for acting as a safe haven to foreigners stowing away wealth, Swiss banks have said they will share account details of suspected money launderers if the request is supported by four specific details. The specific details that someone requesting information should provide are the identity of the suspected offenders, details of the alleged offence, along with facts to undermine the suspicion, name of the bank and branch concerned in Switze.. Full Article

At a time when it is accused of doing little to unearth lakhs of crores of rupees stashed abroad illegally, the Centre on Wednesday invoked secrecy provisions of double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) to block all information about its efforts to retrieve them. Full Article

India today said it will renegotiate with all the 77 countries with which it has double tax avoidance treaties to track tax evasion following allegations of black money being stashed by many Indians in Swiss banks. Full Article

Swiss banks may have handed over client details to the US, but they have said India is not welcome there on a name-fishing expedition. “Swiss law and even the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) model tax convention do not permit fishing expeditions, in other words, the indiscriminate trawling through bank accounts in the [...] Full Article

Government has no plans to bring a new amnesty scheme for tax evaders and wants to amend the Indo-Mauritius tax treaty to curb its abuse by companies, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. VDS schemes in the past offered amnesty to people declaring black money and paying tax. But VDS schemes cannot be hugely successful [...] Full Article

The Swiss government has agreed to loosen its banking secrecy laws and share data on tax evasion cases that India may be pursuing, as part of a renegotiation of the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement that the two countries signed in 1995. Such a reformulated tax agreement will help tighten the legal noose on tax evaders [...] Full Article