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Registered Rep. November 12, 2008 John Churchill	UBS Executive Indicted, Faces Up To Five-Years Jail Time The U.S. Government's investigation of cross-border business by UBS has resulted in an indictment of Raoul Weil, Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Wealth Management and Business Banking.
Financial Advisor April 2009	A Swiss Miss The Internal Revenue Service is cracking down on tax cheats hiding money in foreign countries, and financial advisors who have wealthy clients with cash stashed overseas better hope their clients properly reported such funds.
Registered Rep. February 16, 2011 Charles Paikert	Second IRS Amnesty Offer A Wake Up Call Wealth managers should pay close attention to -- and spread the word about -- the Internal Revenue Service's latest amnesty offer for Americans with undeclared income from offshore accounts.
Registered Rep. December 3, 2009 Kristen French	IRS Investigates Stanford Clients With Offshore Accounts The IRS believes many of Allen Stanford's clients used offshore accounts to conceal income.
Registered Rep. April 6, 2009 John Churchill	IRS Circling, UBS Bans Travel for Some Advisors The United States' ongoing hunt for tax cheats will be putting a crimp in some clients' quarterly portfolio reviews.
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Jessica Silver-Greenberg	A Caribbean Tax Holiday for U.S. Businesses The IRS is investigating how $100 billion a year in credit-card receipts are escaping U.S. sales and income taxes in locales like Aruba and St. Kitts.
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Elena Logutenkova	No Time to Rest at UBS The Swiss bank is profitable again - but CEO Grubel still needs to stem the exodus of wealthy clients.
Registered Rep. June 6, 2008 John Churchill	UBS Considers Divulging Client Names In Tax Evasion Case The Swiss bank may divulge the names of 20,000 of its wealthy US clients as one of its top private bankers faces a Florida court.
Financial Planning August 1, 2011 Ingrid Case	Foreign Affairs Financial planners need to ask clients whether they hold money outside the U.S. and advise them on the proper tax steps. Many clients clearly don't know the law.
Registered Rep. February 9, 2010 Kristen French	UBS Americas Bleeds More Client Assets in Q4, Advisor Attrition Way Down Clients continued to withdraw significant assets from the firm both in the U.S. and around the world.
CFO January 1, 2006 Kris Frieswick	Crackdown The IRS is taking a tough line on corporate tax cheats. According to commissioner Mark Everson, combating abusive tax shelters will remain a top priority for the IRS in 2006. In view of this, some companies are girding for battle.
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InternetNews April 12, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	The DoJ in Search of PayPal Names The Justice Department wants PayPal to hand over customer data to further an on-going investigation of tax evaders.
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The Motley Fool December 11, 2006 Mary Dalrymple	Don't Be on the Bad Side of the Tax Man Take a cue from celebrities who learned their tax lessons the hard way. 1. Use a reputable tax return preparer... 2. File your return... etc.
Registered Rep. February 18, 2009 John Churchill	UBS Nailed With $780 Million Fine, Admits To Aiding Tax Dodge Clients The U.S. government has taken its pound of flesh from UBS today. According to a Department of Justice press release.
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Registered Rep. April 16, 2009 John Churchill	UBS to Cut Lower Producing Advisors The 8,700 jobs UBS plans to cut by the end of 2010 will include 2,000 in the Wealth Management division, many of them financial advisors.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Help! I Owe Taxes! Don't panic if your expected tax refund turns out to be a tax bill. Resist the urge to stick your head in the sand and hope the IRS will just go away. It won't, and avoiding the problem will only make it worse.
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Registered Rep. July 13, 2009	Swiss and U.S. Tension Rising Over UBS Tax Evasion Case The problem continues to be that Swiss banking laws -- which say tax fraud is illegal, but not tax evasion -- protect the names of the 52,000 American clients and giving them up would violate Swiss criminal law.
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The Motley Fool April 12, 2010 Selena Maranjian	Beware These Tax Scams The IRS won't fall for these schemes. Neither should you.
Registered Rep. January 29, 2010 Kristen French	UBS Morale Lifts A number of top financial advisors at the firm say that they are so far very pleased with the leadership of UBS Wealth Management CEO Bob McCann and his team.
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Mother Jones December 2000 Ken Silverstein	Trillion-Dollar Hideaway Offshore accounts. IBCs. Walking trusts. Financial institutions have plenty of names for the places where the wealthy now hide their money from the IRS. They just don't call it cheating...
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CIO April 1, 2001 Elana Varon	The Taxman's Burden The IRS has tried---and failed---to modernize twice before. Now it's taking another swing. Will it be a hit or three strikes and yer out?
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