Archives > 2009-05

Dear Mr de Swardt,     I have seen that you will be speaker at the OECD Forum 2009 that will take place on 23 June 2009 especially in the framework of a workshop called “Promoting market integrity” at the sides of Luc Frieden, who is minister of Finance and Treasury of a tiny jurisdiction that claims not to be a banking, financial and judiciary haven and claims to be self regulated (see OECD or GRECO reports).   The objectives of “Promoting market integrity” were given in the Declaration of the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy...

Switzerland and Denmark have agreed at a technical level to the extension of administrative assistance in tax matters under Art. 26 of the OECD Model Convention. The tax authorities of both States initialed a revised double taxation agreement (DTA)     Le temps reported that at the same time ,Switzerland and Luxembourg initialed as well revised double taxation agreement...

  The CSSF as of today published a  press release that is worth commenting. Firstly the CSSF seems that despite weaknesses that were identified by the CSSF in the infrastructures...

I have reached a milestone in my studies about business ethics in the Luxembourg Financial Center, at a moment when most of its stakeholders finally seem to adhere, though reluctantly, to some...

“My goal has always been clear — to get those taxpayers hiding assets offshore back into the system.” -   IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman     European tax...