Today, as reported in the New York Times under the heading “Tax Day Looms for Americans With Offshore Bank Accounts “, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/business/13irs.html, it turns out that UBS the big Swiss bank has handed over hundreds of bank account names & numbers to Federal tax investigators, presumably as a follow up to the bank bail-out and the big G20 pow-wows about international co-operation regarding finance & stability.

Now contrast that story to this one in March this year in the UK as seen on Wikileaks:
“Barclays Bank gags Guardian over leaked memos detailing offshore tax scam, 16 Mar 2009.”, here: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_Guardian:_Censored_Barclays_tax_avoidance_leaked_memos,_16_Mar_2009

In this case, Barclays got the plug pulled on The Guardian newspaper before it could publish details of the multi-billion pound scam. The Guardian reported the pull here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/17/barclays-guardian-injunction-tax

Fortunately, you can read it all on the Wikileaks site…

London, Caymans, Luxembourg… they’re all there!

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