Also a combination of activists and hackers have exposed how multinational companies evade taxes.
Mr Echegaray added that HSBC also helped clients evade taxes on an additional 224m pesos.
After all, the two verdicts appear to contradict one another: how could he evade taxes on stolen money.
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On January 19th it asked the government to release more details on how rich Indians stash money abroad to evade taxes.
Suppose the IRS and Department of Justice are investigating, trying to determine if you used offshore bank accounts to evade taxes.
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The central bank is looking to tighten the rules following allegations that the employees of some banks helped their customers evade taxes.
It is trying to avert criminal charges that it helped U.S. clients hide assets and evade taxes, clients like California billionaire Igor M.
In September 2011, Fahy and Spence pled guilty to various crimes, including conspiracy to evade taxes, conspiracy to commit identity theft, and tax evasion.
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Also last week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published an investigation of the global offshore financial system, which can be used to evade taxes.
Switzerland offers conditions that invite the German taxpayer to evade taxes.
In its ongoing battle to eradicate the use of offshore accounts to conceal assets (and evade taxes), the government has served subpoenas on numerous taxpayers who it suspects have (or had) undisclosed offshore accounts.
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In emerging economies, the shadow economy is driven not so much by the incentive to evade taxes, which tend to be lower than in rich economies, as by a desire to evade the law.
An Internal Revenue Service unit set up to look at wealthy taxpayers and their complicated financial arrangements has started rigorous probes of some hedge-fund managers and other investors it suspects may be trying to evade taxes.
On June 21, 2012, Iulo, 54 pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, to evade taxes, and to file false tax returns, and one count of conspiracy to commit identity theft.
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Raise tax rates and the working rich will work less, defer income, and take more non-cash compensation while the idle rich will defer capital gains, shift their investments to more tax efficient securities like municipal bonds, and (yes) evade taxes.
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"Bank secrecy laws and practices are serving as a cloak, not only for client misconduct, but also for misconduct by banks colluding with clients to evade taxes, dodge creditors and defy court orders, " says the report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
At the time, prosecutors said Wegelin in 2008 and 2009 opened and serviced dozens of new accounts for U.S. taxpayers as it tried to capture clients lost by UBS after word surfaced that that UBS was being investigated for helping U.S. taxpayers evade taxes and hide assets in Swiss bank accounts.
The bill would also increase penalties for retailers who evade tobacco taxes or sell tobacco without a license.
The Swiss bank Wegelin is to close, after admitting that it helped about 100 US clients evade paying taxes.
In November 2006, the Assessor sent an identical letter to each Attorney, stating that because it viewed the creation of the PCs as an attempt to evade Maine individual income taxes, it intended to disregard the PCs and treat the individual Attorneys as if they had received the partnership distributions.
The offshore banking industry was upended by the IRS investigation of UBS. UBS admitted it helped tens of thousands of Americans evade U.S. taxes.
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The VAT collects taxes efficiently, is difficult to evade, is broad-based, exerts less of a drag on economic growth, and, by the way, is the major source of revenue in Europe.
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Perhaps the most embarrassing moment for Mr. Geithner was his attempt to evade the questions by Arizona Senator Jon Kyl on why he had only remedied the error on back taxes for two of the four years.
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