Offshore Account UpdatePosted in on March 27, 2015
In 2008, the United States took legal action to require Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to turn over information on U.S. citizens who were keeping money in offshore Swiss accounts in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
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A 77-year-old CEO of an international pulp mill company faces up to five years of incarceration for failing to report offshore accounts. The CEO, George Landegger, was chairman of Parsons & Whittemore. From the early 2000’s through 2010, he kept money in offshore Swiss bank accounts. Despite the legal requirements that U.S. citizens file an annual Report of Foreign Bank Accounts (FBAR) declaring offshore investments, Landegger kept his Swiss accounts secret.
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