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		<title>Switzerland Asks US to Drop UBS Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Boyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Switzerland&#8217;s president, hand-Rudolf Merz has asked United States officials to drop a lawsuit that&#8217;s seeking to make Swiss bank USB to turn over information about 52,000 of its American clients. Under Swiss law, disclosing bank client names is a criminal offense. The Justice Department wants the names because of suspected tax evasion.
Swiss officials instead hope to negotiate new tax laws that would fix current United States tax problems in the future. Swizterland and the United States hope to begin negotiating a new treaty on Tuesday that would allow for information disclosure, since the current treaty from 1996 doesn&#8217;t require such [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.everyjoe.com">EveryJoe</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Switzerland&#8217;s president, hand-Rudolf Merz has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/business/global/27tax.html?ref=global">asked United States officials to drop a lawsuit</a> that&#8217;s seeking to make Swiss bank USB to turn over information about 52,000 of its American clients. Under Swiss law, disclosing bank client names is a criminal offense. The Justice Department wants the names because of suspected tax evasion.</p>
<p>Swiss officials instead hope to negotiate new tax laws that would fix current United States tax problems in the future. Swizterland and the United States hope to begin negotiating a new treaty on Tuesday that would allow for information disclosure, since the current treaty from 1996 doesn&#8217;t require such disclosures.</p>
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<p>The Justice Department has said, however, that it is not going to drop the case against UBS and the Americans using it. However, Swiss officials have said that a new treaty may &#8220;fall apart&#8221; unless the UBS case is dropped.</p>
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