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Some of the banks at the center of the global financial meltdown are prominent purveyors of evasion services.
To that end, the I.R.S. is analyzing data from the disclosures to ferret out other banks and firms that sold offshore tax evasion services.
Instead, UBS paid a $780 million fine and admitted criminal wrongdoing in connection with offshore tax evasion services sold to wealthy Americans through its private bank.
The case comes amid an investigation of UBS, the Swiss banking giant, over tax evasion services sold to wealthy American clients.
REUTERS U.S. Nears Legal Action Against Wegelinin | After three employees of the Swiss private bank Wegelin & Company were indicted for selling tax evasion services to wealthy Americans, United States authorities are now considering taking action against the bank, Reuters reports.
The I.R.S.'s strategy gathered momentum when the agency went after UBS, which was caught sending bankers to the United States to offer tax evasion services and settled with the government.
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Former tax inspector Richard Brooks tells BBC Panorama in a programme to be aired on Monday night: "I think they were a tax avoidance and tax evasion service.
Richard Brooks, a former tax inspector and author of The Great Tax Robbery, said: "I think they were a tax avoidance and tax evasion service.
UBS ended its own U.S. investigation in 2009 by admitting it had provided tax-evasion services to rich Americans.
The bank turned over 4,450 client names and paid a $780 million fine after admitting to criminal wrongdoing in selling tax-evasion services to wealthy Americans.
In particular, the charge sheds new light on how Swiss bankers continued to sell tax-evasion services even while American authorities turned up the heat on UBS.
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