UK finalising deal with Switzerland to tax non-domicile accounts

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UK finalising deal with Switzerland to tax non-domicile accounts

Salman Shaheen
April 27 2011

The UK government is in the final stages of brokering a deal to apply withholding tax on British citizens with Swiss bank accounts.

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