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Telling Swiss secrets: 222 billionaires
- paol 16y agoThe link misses part 1. Start here: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/100724/swiss-banking-secrecy http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/100724/swiss-banki...
- ck2 16y agoSo they are making at least a few million dollars per year in just interest on their assets, yet still dodging taxes that sustain the country that helped make them so wealthy. I think it must all just be a big game to them at that level.
- d2viant 16y agoDid they avoid paying taxes on the original principal? Seems like they paid taxes and then decided to move that capital to another country to put to use. I don't see the problem. The United States is no longer aiding in increasing the value of that chunk of money, protecting it, or using it, so why should they have a claim to gains generated from it?