{"id":12892,"date":"2014-02-06T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12892"},"modified":"2014-02-06T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T08:20:34","slug":"swiss-turn-down-greeces-retroactive-tax-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12892","title":{"rendered":"Swiss turn down Greece\u2019s retroactive tax plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf turned down the proposal of her Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras to impose taxes on Greeks\u2019 bank accounts and transfer the money to Athens.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12894\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/eveline1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12894\" alt=\" Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/eveline1-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/eveline1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/eveline1.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently in the Greek capital, Widmer-Schlumpf told Stournaras that Switzerland does not do such deals any more, focusing instead on automatic information exchange between tax authorities, currently negotiated at international level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cModels we had earlier considered and discussed to prevent untaxed money in Swiss banks are partly outdated,\u201d Widmer-Schlumpf said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The total amount of Greek deposits in Swiss banks is not clear, some scenarios speak even of 60 billion euro. It\u2019s not a secret that the debt-ridden country would love to extend a long arm and grab a percentage even if the money has been already taxed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf turned down the proposal of her Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras to impose taxes on Greeks\u2019 bank accounts and transfer the money to Athens.&nbsp; Currently in the Greek capital, Widmer-Schlumpf told Stournaras that Switzerland does not do such deals any more, focusing instead on automatic information exchange between tax authorities, currently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swiss turn down Greece\u2019s retroactive tax plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8263,8,653,8264],"class_list":["post-12892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eveline-widmer-schlumpf","tag-greece","tag-switzerland","tag-taxing-bank-deposits"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/eveline1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}