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Merz sees Swiss off OECD tax list by autumn -paper

June 29, 2009

Reuters

ZURICH, June 29 (Reuters) – Switzerland should have renegotiated more than enough double taxation treaties by the autumn to be removed from an OECD ‘grey list’, Swiss Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz was quoted as saying on Monday.

Switzerland is trying to secure 12 new bilateral tax deals by the end of 2009 to be removed from the OECD list of tax havens that need to improve fiscal cooperation, and to avoid sanctions from the G20 nations.

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