Hong Kong Goes Swiss: Will Disclose American Worker Financial Data To IRS
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/26/2014
With Switzerland long dead as an offshore tax haven for US savers unwilling to fund Uncle Sam’s central-planning machine (and who can blame them – isn’t monetizing the deficit precisely what the Fed is for?) and with Cyprus banks, shall we say, compromised, many have been forced to look for greener tax-evading pastures, as far away as the Pacific Rim, especially that oasis of mega wealth creation, Hong Kong. Only this time the US is paying attention as SCMP reports that Hong Kong tax officials will soon be able to pass information about the finances of Americans working in Hong Kong to their US counterparts under an agreement signed yesterday as part of Washington’s global crackdown on tax evasion. In other words, for tax purposes, Hong Kong is now effecitvely under IRS control.
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