Switzerland Refuses French Request for Tax Information Outside of International Standards and Detailed Showing of Tax Investigations

A recent controversy between the Swiss and French governments over French officials claims that French authorities have obtained a list of 3,000 names of French tax persons with bank accounts in Switzerland worth $4.3 billion and the new French-Swiss revised double tax treaty (DTA) show the start of a discussion about revising international standards on international exchange of tax information...(more)