UBS claims naming tax evaders would break law

UBS would be forced to break Swiss criminal law if it gave America’s tax authorities the names of potential tax evaders, the Swiss bank warned today.

The bank was responding to a lawsuit filed in February by the Internal Revenue Service demanding that UBS hand over the names of 52,000 Americans with offshore accounts at the bank

Source – Times Online

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