Telling Swiss secrets: 222 billionaires

Telling Swiss secrets: 222 billionaires(globalpost.com)

38 points by skushch 15 years ago | 3 comments

paol 15 years ago |

The link misses part 1. Start here: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/100724/swiss-banki...

ck2 15 years ago |

So they are making at least a few million dollars per year in just interest on their assets, yet still dodging taxes that sustain the country that helped make them so wealthy.

I think it must all just be a big game to them at that level.

d2viant 15 years ago | |

Did they avoid paying taxes on the original principal? Seems like they paid taxes and then decided to move that capital to another country to put to use. I don't see the problem.

The United States is no longer aiding in increasing the value of that chunk of money, protecting it, or using it, so why should they have a claim to gains generated from it?