Last year, top government officials vowed to crack down after the evasion problem reached "embarrassing proportions," as Deputy Finance Minister Vincenzo Visco put it at the time.
"If the tax evasion problem no longer becomes about Switzerland but is instead really seen as a worldwide issue, that could be a blessing in disguise, because Switzerland would no longer stand out as the ugly little duckling that it has been portrayed to be," said Christian Lüscher, a lawyer and member of the Swiss Parliament.
The pursuit evasion problem in the plane was introduced by Suzuki and Yamashita [19].
But the IMF said that Greece must do more to tackle its "notorious" tax evasion problem.
Critics, mostly but not exclusively on the right, were quick to argue the wealth tax would give the rich more incentive to hide their millions from tax collectors, accelerating America's already-massive wealth concealment and tax evasion problem at a time when a known tax cheat is president and the IRS has no money to go after rich people.
"There remains an enormous tax-evasion problem to be addressed," James Calvin, the association's executive director, said.
"The president's plan does nothing but damn us to becoming Greece," Graham said, failing to mention that Greece, a small island with limited natural resources and international clout and a chronic tax-evasion problem, is nothing like the United States.
In this paper we propose a novel framework for dealing with certain pursuit-evasion control problems.
But crony capitalism and tax evasion are huge problems for poor and middle-income countries: according to the International Monetary Fund, it costs them hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenues each year.
Instead, what has happened thus far is a drainage of cash from Greek banks, resurgent unemployment, a return to budget deficit, a failure to tackle tax evasion, and recurring problems with state pension and healthcare funds.
