{"id":1813029,"date":"2015-01-27T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/les-paradis-fiscaux-dans-le-viseur\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:52:59","slug":"les-paradis-fiscaux-dans-le-viseur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/les-paradis-fiscaux-dans-le-viseur\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Havens Under Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The renewed effort to combat tax havens, led by France and Germany, is creating tensions between Bern and Berlin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the meeting of the 17 OECD nations held on October 21, 2008, by French Budget Minister Eric Woerth and German Finance Minister Peer Steinbr\u00fcck regarding &#8220;responses to the non-compliance with legislation&#8221; by tax havens, tensions are rising between Bern and Berlin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Germany has called on the OECD to place Switzerland on its &#8220;blacklist,&#8221; arguing that its employment conditions &#8220;incentivize&#8221; Germans to move to\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/magazine\/travel\/\">escape<\/a> tax-related\u201d.<br \/>\nA direct response from the Swiss government, which stated on October 25, &#8220;very surprised, and above all, very disappointed by the tone. This is not how one speaks to a partner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Absent from the meeting, the Luxembourg Prime Minister stated he was &#8220;entirely open to discussing the merits of banking secrecy,&#8221; without, however, being willing to &#8220;voluntarily sit in the dock.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renewed effort, led by France and Germany, to combat tax havens is creating tensions between Bern and Berlin. Following a meeting of 17 OECD countries held on October 21, 2008, by French Budget Minister Eric Woerth and German Finance Minister Peer Steinbr\u00fcck regarding &#8220;measures to address the non-compliance with legislation&#8221; by tax havens, tensions have escalated between Bern and Berlin. Germany has called on the OECD to place Switzerland on its &#8220;blacklist,&#8221; arguing that its current conditions &#8220;encourage&#8221; Germans to engage in &#8220;tax evasion.&#8221; This was met with a direct response from the Swiss government, which stated on October 25 that it was &#8220;very surprised, and above all very disappointed by the tone. This is not how one speaks to a partner.&#8221; The Luxembourg Prime Minister, who was absent from the meeting, stated he was &#8220;entirely open to discussing the merits of banking secrecy,&#8221; without, however, being willing to &#8220;voluntarily sit in the dock.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1813030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1813029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-brief","tag-paradis-fiscaux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814152,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813029\/revisions\/1814152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newzyexecutive.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}